Euripides Quotes

يجب الحذر والحيطة من عدو أحمق وغد، أما إذا كان عدوك رجلاً شريفاً من بيت كريم فاخضع له، إذ أن خضوعك قد يلين قلبه.

There is no justice in the world's censorious eyes. They will not wait to learn a man's true character;
Though no wrong has been done them, one look - and they hate.

- Medea

We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much.

wealth is honored most of all things by men, and has the greatest influence of any thing among men. In pursuit of which I am come, leading hither ten thousand spears: for a nobly-born man in poverty is nothing.

Upon my knees i say 'You used me'
And I feel dirty from your touch

Haydi yüreğim, silahlan! Kaçınılmaz cinayeti
işlemekte neden kararsız duruyorsun böyle?
Haydi zavallı elim, kılıcı kavrayıp
aşıver hayatının bu acı dönüm noktasını.

CRE. Now indeed cease from your grief, for it is time to think of the sepulture. But hear these words, O Œdipus; Eteocles, thy son, hath given to me the dominion of this land, giving them as a marriage portion to Hæmon, and with them the bed of thy daughter Antigone. I therefore will not suffer thee any longer to dwell in this land. For clearly did Tiresias say, that never, whilst thou dost inhabit this land, will the state be prosperous. But depart; and this I say not from insolence, nor being thine enemy, but on account of thy evil genius, fearing lest the country suffer any harm.

نیک‌بختی هیچ میرایی پایدار نیست. اگر بخت یار باشد، شاید که دارایی تو از همسایه‌ات بیشتر باشد، اما هرگز از او نیک‌بخت‌تر نیستی.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

ATT. Venus, who hath her station at thy gates. HIPP. I, who am chaste, salute her at a distance. ATT. Venerable is she, however, and of note among mortals. HIPP. Different Gods and men are objects of regard to different persons.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

For if I permitted this altar to be violated by force by a strange man, I shall not seem to inhabit a free country.

Ah! there is naught more serviceable to mankind than a prudent distrust.

Whom God would destroy, he first makes mad.

Death will be my wedding, children and glory.