Euripides Quotes

ما من أحد على الإطلاق يتصور أنه شخصياً سوف يموت، ولكنه يتصور حدوث هذا المصير السيئ للآخرين.

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

Bakkhai: Might be a good idea, if it’s not too much bother, to show more respect for your old grandfather. Not to mention the gods. Teiresias: You’re bold and loud and glib, Pentheus, you should have been a lawyer. But you totally lack common sense. This “new invented daimon” you laugh at — take my word for it — he’s not one to laugh at. He’s going to be big.

Agaue was foaming at the mouth; her rolling eyes
Were wild; she was not in her right mind, but possessed

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

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

I bend before you like a branch bending towards the earth, pressing my body against your knees. This is the body that your wife gave birth to. Don’t send me to an early death. It is sweet to see the sun’s light. Do not force me down into the darkness of the Underworld.

I was the first child to call you father, the first you called your child. I was the first to sit upon your knee while you fondly kissed me. You used to say to me, “Will I see you one day, happy in your husband’s house, bringing honor to your family?” And I would say to you, as I pulled upon your beard, the same beard I now caress, “And what about you, Father? Will I welcome you into my house, when you are an old man, and take care of you in thanks for all the years that you took care of me?” I remember every word we said, but you have forgotten them, and now you are planning to end my life.

Why long for death's marriage bed
which human beings all shun?
Death comes soon enough
and brings an end to everything.

Verrai a visitarmi in sogno ed io sarò felice: è dolce vedere i propri cari anche di notte, per il tempo che ci è concesso. Magari avessi la voce e il canto di Orfeo, per ammaliare la figlia di Demetra o il suo sposo e così portarti via dall'Ade. Scenderei tra le ombre, e né il cane di Plutone né Caronte, il nocchiero delle anime potrebbero impedirmi di restituirti alla luce. Ma così come stanno le cose, aspettami, finchè non giunga il mio ultimo giorno: prepara la dimora, dove tu ed io abiteremo insieme. Ordinerò ai miei figli di depormi nella tua stessa bara di cedro, giaceremo fianco a fianco: neanche da morto voglio restar separato da te, l'unica persona a me fedele.

Lebih baik mati dalam perdamaian daripada hidup dalam perang.

CHOR. It is not right to speak well, where the deeds are not glorious; for this is not honorable, but galling to justice.

Ведь если зло - игрушка знатных, разве
В толпе оно не станет божеством?

And so, by the arts of Ulysses, [5] they drew me from my mother under pretense of being wedded to Achilles.

Surely I am in many things different from many mortals, for in my judgment, whatever man being unjust, is deeply skilled in argument, merits the severest punishment. For vaunting that with his tongue he can well gloze over injustice, he dares to work deceit, but he is not over-wise.