Euripides Quotes

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

Had I the tongue of Orpheus and his mellifluous strains and by song could cast a spell on Persephone and her spouse to wrest you out of hell,

I should go down and neither Pluto’s hound nor the spirit-ferrying Charon at his oar could stop me: not till I’d brought your soul up into the light.

Wait for me down there. Wait for me to die.

Prepare the home where you and I shall live as one.

For I shall make them lay my bones side by side with yours: stretched out with you in the selfsame cedar box.

the follies of two when they clash together in the same point, are the most hateful ill.

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.

Η ανταμοιβή πρέπει να είναι ανάλογη με τη δουλειά. Πραγματικά, ο μισθός ο ανάλογος με τον κόπο διπλασιάζει τη διάθεση.

إن الذي يتمنى أن يتمتع بالثروة أو القوة ويفضلها على أصدقاء الخير، قد جانبه الصواب.

One moment, one short moment - and forever sorrow.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.

But words can conquer words.

می‌دانم که فخرفروشی بُتانی معمول است که به یکسان به گوشه‌گیر و پُرکار می‌زنند. و گوشه‌گیر که زندگی آرام را برمی‌گزیند، بدنام‌تر می‌شود: آنها کم‌نیرو و کم‌دل‌اند.

Even catastrophes grow weary,
No wind can keep blasting all the time.
And great happiness in the end falters.
Yes, all is change.

"Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way"."

Con la ayuda de sus bellos ojos destrozó de la peor manera a la próspera Troya.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop: there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.