Euripides Quotes

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

Tanrı kimi yok etmek isterse, önce onun aklını alır.

ALCESTIS Translated by Theodore Alois Buckley

And him that is our enemy shall the father kill with imprecations, which Neptune, king of the ocean, granted as a privilege to Theseus, that he should make no prayer thrice to the God in vain.

OR. Why mournest thou thus, and teasest us [65] concerning our future ills, whoever thou art, O lady? In naught do I deem him wise, who, when about to die, with bewailings seeks to overcome the fear of death, nor him who deplores death now near at hand, [66] when he has no hope of safety, in that he joins two ills instead of one, both incurs the charge of folly, and dies none the less. But one must needs let fortune take its course. But mourn us not, for we know and are acquainted with the sacrificial rites of this place.

ينبغي ألا يكون جزعك بغير اعتدال، وأنت صاحب السلطان.

I will storm the Gods and shake the Universe

And ‘tis a rare prize for a man to obtain such a wife, but there is no lack of getting a bad spouse.

for if this shall be, and they ratify your words, I no longer know this Athens as free.

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

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Your very silence shows you agree.

For the discreet among mortals are such as pass through life correctly with wisdom.

The wisest men follow their own direction
And listen to no prophet guiding them.
None but the fools believe in oracles,
Forsaking their own judgment.