Euripides

“Friends show their love in times of trouble.”

“Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.”

“For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.”

“Soon all of you immortalsWill be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for?Have you run out of thunderbolts?”

“There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.”

“That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.”

“ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head”

“Cleverness is not wisdom.”

“Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.”

“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”

“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”

“Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.”

“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”

“Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”

“Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.”

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”

“I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief”

“Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.”

“Authority is never without hate. ”

“Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”

“Prosperity is full of friends.”

“Mighty is geometry joined with art resistless.”

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

“Baik sekali menjadi kaya, baik sekali menjadi kuat, tetapi lebih baik lagi menjadi orang yang dicintai banyak kawan.”

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.”

“Every man is like the company he wont to keep.”

“God helps him who strives hard.”

“The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.”

“It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.”

“The wisest men follow their own direction.”

“O Dionysus, we feel you near,stirring like molten lavaunder the ravaged earth,flowing from the wounds of your treesin tears of sap,screaming with the rageof your hunted beasts.”

“The God knows when to smile.”

“Prepare yourselvesfor the roaring voice of the God of Joy!”

“Come, God -- Bromius, Bacchus, Dionysus -- burst into life, burstinto being, be a mighty bull,a hundred-headed snake,a fire-breathing lion. Burst into smiling life, oh Bacchus!”

“He is life's liberating force.He is release of limbs and communion through dance.He is laughter, and music in flutes. He is repose from all cares -- he is sleep!When his blood bursts from the grapeand flows across tables laid in his honorto fuse with our blood,he gently, gradually, wraps us in shadowsof ivy-cool sleep.”

“Remember this! No amount of Bacchic revelingcan corrupt an honest woman.”

“Do not mistake the rule of forcefor true power. Men are not shaped by force.”

“Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind.The first is Demeter, the Goddess.She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food.Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wineand the blessings of life's flowing juices.His blood, the blood of the grape,lightens the burden of our mortal misery.Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour outto offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.”

“This town must learn,even against its will, how much it coststo scorn a God's mysteries and to be purged.So shall I vindicate my virgin motherand reveal myself to mortals as a God,the son of God.”

“O Dionysus, Son of God,do you see our sufferings?Do you see your faithfulin helpless agony before the oppressor?O Lord, come down from Olympus,shake your golden thyrsusand stifle the murderer's insolent fury.”

“My hair is holy. I grow it long for the God.”

“Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.”

“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”

“I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”

“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”