“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Of all creatures that can feel and think,
we women are the worst treated things alive”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“It's human; we all put self interest first.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“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, quote from Medea
“My love for you
was greater than my wisdom.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“death is the only water to wash away this dirt”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Old loves are dropped when new ones come”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Gods often contradict
our fondest expectations.
What we anticipate
does not come to pass.
What we don't expect
some god finds a way to make it happen.
So with this story”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Since I am wise, some people envy me,
some think I'm idle, some the opposite,
and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Oh, say, how call ye this,
To face, and smile, the comrade whom his kiss
Betrayed? Scorn? Insult? Courage? None of these:
'Tis but of all man's inward sicknesses
The vilest, that he knoweth not of shame
Nor pity! Yet I praise him that he came . . .
To me it shall bring comfort, once to clear
My heart on thee, and thou shalt wince to hear.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Let no one think me a weak one, feeble-spirited, A stay-at-home, but rather just the opposite, One who can hurt my enemies and help my friends; For the lives of such persons are most remembered.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind it
To thy breast, and make thee dead
To thy children, to thine own spirit's pain?
When the hand knows what it dares,
When thine eyes look into theirs,
Shalt thou keep by tears unblinded
Thy dividing of the slain?
These be deeds Not for thee:
These be things that cannot be!”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“I will storm the Gods and shake the Universe”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
“You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers.”
― Euripides, quote from Medea
Euripides
Born place: in Salamís, Greece
Born date September 17, 0480
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“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”
― Alfred Bester, quote from The Stars My Destination
“I don’t really believe I am a hero to the world. But I long ago decided that I must live as if I were a hero—that I must pass through all the difficulties which confront me, because they are only my inevitable circles of fire.”
― Anne Rice, quote from The Tale of the Body Thief
“Sometimes beauty, or lack thereof, gets in the way of really knowing someone”
― Amy Harmon, quote from Making Faces
“And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchedness about him, his dream had had its usual effect: it had intensified the sordidness of his surroundings a thousandfold.”
― Mark Twain, quote from The Prince and the Pauper
“In retrospect, it is easy to see that Hitler's successful gamble in the Rhineland brought him a victory more staggering and more fatal in its immense consequences than could be comprehended at the time. At home it fortified his popularity and his power, raising them to heights which no German ruler of the past had ever enjoyed. It assured his ascendancy over his generals, who had hesitated and weakened at a moment of crisis when he had held firm. It taught them that in foreign politics and even in military affairs his judgment was superior to theirs. They had feared that the French would fight; he knew better. And finally, and above all, the Rhineland occupation, small as it was as a military operation, opened the way, as only Hitler (and Churchill, alone, in England) seemed to realize, to vast new opportunities in a Europe which was not only shaken but whose strategic situation was irrevocably changed by the parading of three German battalions across the Rhine bridges.
Conversely, it is equally easy to see, in retrospect, that France's failure to repel the Wehrmacht battalions and Britain's failure to back her in what would have been nothing more than a police action was a disaster for the West from which sprang all the later ones of even greater magnitude. In March 1936 the two Western democracies were given their last chance to halt, without the risk of a serious war, the rise of a militarized, aggressive, totalitarian Germany and, in fact - as we have seen Hitler admitting - bring the Nazi dictator and his regime tumbling down. They let the chance slip by.
For France, it was the beginning of the end. Her allies in the East, Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia, suddenly were faced with the fact that France would not fight against German aggression to preserve the security system which the French government itself had taken the lead in so laboriously building up. But more than that. These Eastern allies began to realize that even if France were not so supine, she would soon not be able to lend them much assistance because of Germany's feverish construction of a West Wall behind the Franco-German border. The erection of this fortress line, they saw, would quickly change the strategic map of Europe, to their detriment. They could scarcely expect a France which did not dare, with her one hundred divisions, to repel three German battalions, to bleed her young manhood against impregnable German fortifications which the Wehrmacht attacked in the East. But even if the unexpected took place, it would be futile. Henceforth the French could tie down in the West only a small part of the growing German Army. The rest would be free for operations against Germany's Eastern neighbors.”
― William L. Shirer, quote from The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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