I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
Interpretation
The quote reflects a preference for fundamental and raw human experiences over complexities.
Euripides nostalgically expresses a longing for the simpler aspects of life that he associates with strength and authenticity. By referencing 'the old way' and 'poison', he emphasizes a return to primal emotions and experiences that are unfiltered, suggesting that true strength is found in embracing life's raw realities, rather than living in a complicated world divorced from essential human experiences.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a discussion about the importance of returning to basic values in a complex society.
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.
Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
Human beings are pattern-seeking animals who will prefer even a bad theory or a conspiracy theory to no theory at all.
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge, it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again. No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence. No-mind is the real way to live, the real way to know, the real way to be.
Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.
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