The Bacchae/Euripides

Dionysos: The greatest truths often sound like babblings of madmen- till they are understood.
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Chorus:
... What does it mean to live a life?
Can you hope for better than to rise above all warring,
Control what threatens you,
Defeat what oppresses you?
To be strong-
No, nothing is better
I choose that.
Life is a stormy sea,
Happiness is a harbour.
Finding your harbour is your life-work.
He is truly happy who succeeds in that life-work.
Some end rich, some poor,
Some are strong, some achieve nothing.
There are ten thousand hopes, then thousand dreams,
They may all come true- they may all vanish,
But happiness-
A man finds happiness when he lies every day
With those forces of the world on his side.
All hail to that man!
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Chorus: ...Live easy, live calm, and the storm can't wreak you-
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Chorus:
... He {Dionysos} hates the man who says no.
No to the day,
No to the night,
No to life, and no to all love-
Keep away from that kind,
They are too much for you, they will consume you.
There is another way, never named, never mapped.
But the unheard-of, untalked-of people follow it.
That way I choose- I say yes to it.
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Chorus:
The forces of life are seen in disguise,
A thousand disguises.
They make all things possible,
They guarantee nothing,
What you thought was forgotten, buried,
They conceive, and bring to birth again.
Today you have watched their power at work-
It never ends.