“If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.”
Book:Medea
Quote by Euripides
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“Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.”
Source: Euripides
“Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.”
Source: Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore
“The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.”
Source: Euripides
“Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.”
Source: Euripides: Electra, translated by E. T. Vermeule. The Phoenician women, translated by E. Wyckoff. The Bacchae, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Chronological note on the plays of Euripides, by R. Lattimore
“The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.”
Source: Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra
Source: Euripides
“If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.”
“Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
Source: Euripides
“The unrighteous are never really fortunate.”
Source: Euripides IV: Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes