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Famous Euripides Quotes
“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”
“How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.”
Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
“But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Euripides (Illustrated)
“To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus