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81 " If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear springs where the nymphs rise, and the rich pastures starred with roses and hyacinths for the goddesses to gather. "
― Euripides , Iphigenia in Aulis
82 " Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the cruelest thing of all. "
83 " Give me a man, for his sons make courageous soldiers while pretty boys can only decorate the dance. "
― Euripides , Electra
84 " Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful deeds on your brother against his will. "
85 " We would have to think the gods had no minds, to pray for murderers. "
86 " Bear witness for one who is loved and not loved: we cast the cloak gently around her, an end of great woe for our house. "
87 " Apollo, Apollo—but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to acquiesce. And you must do now as Fate and Zeus ordain. "
88 " The hounds snap fierce at your heels. Turn toward Athens. I hear them pelting hard on you, I see black flesh and snake-hands coiling round a fruit of agonizing pain. "
89 " Apollo, your voice hymned a justice I could not see clear, but all too clear the anguish you caused, the bloodhaunted, homeless future you've doled out. "
90 " You gave birth to your own death. "
91 " If the gods do a shameful thing, they are not gods. "
― Euripides
92 " On, on! Run, dance, delirious, possessed! "
― Euripides , The Bacchae and Other Plays
93 " Look at it steadily; come closer to the truth.I see-- O, gods, what horror! Oh, what misery! "
94 " There is strange tyranny in the god who sentAgainst your house this cruel punishment. "
95 " A prudent scepticism is the most profitable quality a man can have. "
96 " Prepare yourselvesfor the roaring voice of the God of Joy! "
― Euripides , The Bacchae
97 " That mortal is a fool who destroys a city,its temples, its tombs, and the precincts of the dead,making them a waste. He will be destroyed himself. "
― Euripides , Women of Troy/Hecuba/Helen: Three Plays
98 " ...I'd never want my museto be a singer of nothing but disaster. "
― Euripides , The Trojan Women
99 " No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him. "
100 " If you have an opinion, and that opinion is weak, do not consider it wisdom.- Tiresias to Pentheus "