Xerxes

“The fact is that there are people, good people who,
not because they want to
but all the same,
fall in love with the wrong thing.”
― Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

“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.”
― Euripides, Hippolytus

“Prometheus: Yes, I stopped mortals from foreseeing their doom.
Chorus: What cure did you discover for that sickness?
Prometheus: I sowed in them blind hopes.”
― David Grene, Greek Tragedies, Volume 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus

“Receive the god into your kingdom
pour libations, cover your head with ivy, join the dance!”
― Euripides, The Bacchae