Quotes · Skopia

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Play · Tragedy (play)

Mere cleverness is not wisdom.

Bacchae · 405 BC

★ 3.9

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

Leave no stone unturned.

Children of Hercules · 430 BC

★ 3.8

Play · Tragic play · Greek theater

My tongue swore, but my mind's unsworn.

428 BC

★ 3.8

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

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

Hippolytus · 428 BC

★ 3.7

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart of those he would destroy. I pray that love may never come to me with murderous intent, in rhythms measureless and wild. Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts than those of Aphrodite sent by the hand of Eros, Zeus' child.

Hippolytus · 428 BC

★ 3.6

Play · Tragedy (play)

Never shall I say that marriage brings more joy than pain.

Alcestis · 438 BC

★ 2.2

Play · Tragedy (play)

O sleep's enchantment, friend and helper against sickness.

Orestes · 408 BC

★ 2.2

Play · Tragedy (play)

Be happy, drink, think each day your own as you live it and leave the rest to fortune.

Alcestis · 438 BC

★ 2.1

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

Phoenix · 400 BC

★ 2.1

The god Visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Phrixus · 400 BC

★ 2.1

Play · Greek tragedy · Tragedy (play)

We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement.

Hippolytus · 428 BC

★ 2.0

Who knows but life be that which men call death, and death what men call life?

Phrixus · 400 BC

★ 1.2