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- Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I have been versed in the reasonings of men;
but Fate is stronger than anything I have known. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- Time cancels young pain.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C.
- I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Medea, 431 B.C.
- My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
- I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Electra, 413 B.C.
- The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Aegeus
- Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Aeolus
- Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
- When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Temenidae
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