Thursday, March 5, 2026

Euripides

Euripides (c. 485-406 BCE)

“Sanity brings pain
but madness is a vile thing.”

  • From Euripides’ Hippolytus (approximately between lines 240-250), translated by James Morwood in Medea and Other Plays (Oxford University Press, 1997, 1998, 2008).

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