Euripides Quotes

Sorrow is long
when love has vanished underground.

everybody loves himself more than his neighbor.

So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed.

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

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

فإن الابن الذي لا يبجل والديه ويحترمهما هو ابن تعس. فإنه إذا ما أعطى والديه الحب فسوف يحصل من أولاده على نفس هذا الحب.

أما الدول الخاملة التي تتبع سياسات غامضة وحذرة فإن حذرها يغشي بصيرتها.

And, they tell us, we at home
Live free from danger, they go out to battle: fools!
I’d rather stand three times in the front line than bear
One child.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He´ll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he knows he can dress up murder in handsome words.

تأتي الشدائد اختباراً حقيقياً لمعدن الأصدقاء، وهو اختبار لا تكذب نتائجه قط.

O Zeus! Why have you given us clear signs to tell
True gold from counterfeit; but when we need to know
Bad men from good, the flesh bears no revealing mark?

Go home to your wife. Go bury her.

It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful, Their pledges that are loose.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

حتى الكوارث العنيفة التي تصيب البشر يصيبها الإعياء بعد حين، وهبات الرياح العاصفة لا تحتفظ بقوة اندفاعها على الدوام، من المحال أن يدوم حال المحظوظين إلى الأبد، فكافة الأمور تتغير وتتبادل المواقف مع بعضها البعض، إن أفضل الرجال يثق باستمرار في الآمال، أما اليأس فشيمة الضعفاء.