Euripides Quotes

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Woman is woman's natural ally.

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

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

If the liberty of thought is the highest activity of the human mind, then the suppression of that liberty must be the most degrading to us as human beings.

But Why Does She Not Speak?

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.

NURSE: ...I'll never let go.
PHAEDRA: Then, poor woman, you'll have to share my doom.
NURSE: What doom could be worse than losing *you*?

Somos esclavos de los dioses, sean lo que sean los dioses.

Я склонности не чувствую в толпе
Оправдывать себя и, вероятно,
В своем кругу сумел бы доказать
Ясней твою ошибку. И не так ли
Нередко наш страдает тонкий слух
От музыки, которой рукоплещет
Толпа?

Kurz ist das Leben: wer dennoch großen Zielen nachjagt verfehlt das Mögliche.

Had I succeeded, I’d be called wise: our wisdom depends on our success.

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

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.