Euripides Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

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

  Euripides

  Hurt, Character, Men

  Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

• This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

  Euripides

  Mean, Power, Suffering

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.85, University of Chicago Press

• 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”

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