Euripides Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds, But with rapt admiration contemplates Immortal Nature's ageless harmony, And how and when the order came to be.

  Euripides

  Hurt, Men, Order

• No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

  Euripides

  Men, Public Opinion, Earth

  Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”

• Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.

  Euripides

  Grief, Wine, Sleep

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

• 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: wine and 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 out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.

  Euripides

  Blessed, Wine, Son

• We look for good on earth and cannot recognize it when met.

  Euripides

  Looks, Earth, Mets

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae”

• Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

  Euripides

  Ocean, Savages, Earth

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.125, University of Chicago Press

• Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

  Euripides

  Light, Relaxation, Earth

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

• Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.

  Euripides

  Children, Eye, Light

  Euripides, “Children In The House”

• Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

  Euripides

  Women, Earth, Herbs

  Euripides (2013). “Medea”, p.25, Lulu.com

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