"Medea" Quotes
Seneca's "Medea" tells the story of a vengeful sorceress who, betrayed by her husband Jason, enacts a horrific revenge by murdering their children.
classics | 106 pages | Published in 1931
Quotes
The best intelligence is the one that serves the mind, not the one that enslaves it.
No one is so completely unhappy as the person who has been completely happy.
A person is as happy as they decide to be.
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a person who doesn't know what they desire.
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don't have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great person struggling against adversity.
