Hippolytos

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.

I have pondered on the causes of a life's shipwreck. I think that our lives are worse than the mind's quality would warrant. There are many who know virtue. We know the good, we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.

PHAEDRA: What do people mean when they speak of love? NURSE: Dear child: the sweetest and bitterest thing on earth. PHAEDRA: For me it is agony. That is all I know.

NURSE: ...I'll never let you go. PHAEDRA: Then, poor woman, you'll have to share my doom. NURSE: What doom could be worse than losing you?

NURSE: Don't try to know everything, child. Just be helped.

We all have personal favorites, whether we choose a god or a friend.

Had I succeeded, I’d be called wise: our wisdom depends on our success.

But if any far-off state there be Dearer than life to mortality, The hand of the Dark hath hold thereof, And mist is under the mist above; So we are sick for life, and cling On earth to this nameless and shining thing, For other life is a fountain sealed, And the deeps below are unrevealed, And we drift on legends for ever.