Euripides Quotes

سهل على أي انسان، مهما كان حظه من الذكاء، أن يتقدم بالنصيحة دون ترو، فلا نفع في التسرع دون تريث.

Today's today. Tomorrow, we may be
Ourselves gone down the drain of eternity.

But if any far-off state there be
Dearer than life to mortality,
The hand of the Dark hath hold thereof,
And mist is under the mist above;
So we are sick for life, and cling
On earth to this nameless and shining thing,
For other life is a fountain sealed,
And the deeps below are unrevealed,
And we drift on legends for ever.

Agamemnon, if you help this man, you help an impious, perjured, and polluted traitor, and by upholding evil soil you own fair name.

Such things accursed war brings in its train

I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night

My job is done and I took my rightful vengeance.

MEGARA: You love the light so much?
AMPHITRYION: I do, I love its hopes.

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.

IPH. But how didst thou dare the terrible deeds in respect to your mother? OR. Let us be silent respecting my mother — 'twas in avenging my father. IPH. And what was the reason for her slaying her husband? OR. Let go the subject of my mother. Nor is it pleasant for you to hear. IPH. I am silent. But Argos now looks up to thee.

Apollo, Apollo — but he is my lord. I will keep silence. He is wise forever, though his oracle spoke brutal words. We are bound to acquiesce. And you must do now as Fate and Zeus ordain.

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.

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

MEDEA: The gods know who was the author of this sorrow.
JASON: Yes, the gods know indeed, they know your loathsome heart.
MEDEA: Hate me. But I tire of your barking bitterness.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.