Iphigenia At Aulis Quotes

“He loves power. A terrible love.”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting for him.”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate!

CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

“We'll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have put justice behind them, and there is no law but lawlessness, and none join in fear of the gods?”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

“Truly we are creatures of labor and suffering, and nothing for long. Labor and suffering, and the plain sight of our destiny is the cruelest thing of all.”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

“We would have to think the gods had no minds, to pray for murderers.”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis

“If only the herdsman had not brought him up with the flocks, not reared him, Paris, Alexander, to watch his flock by the clear springs where the nymphs rise, and the rich pastures starred with roses and hyacinths for the goddesses to gather.”
― Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis