Ah! there is naught more serviceable to mankind than a prudent distrust. - Euripides

PHÆ. Women of Trœzene, who inhabit this extreme frontier of the land of Pelops. Often at other times in the long season of night have I thought in what manner the life of mortals is depraved. [15] And to me they seem to do ill, not from the nature of their minds, for many have good thoughts, but thus must we view these things. What things are good we understand and know, but practice not; some from idleness, and others preferring some other pleasures to what is right: for there are many pleasures in life-long prates, and indolence, a pleasing ill, and shame; but there are two, the one indeed not base, but the other the weight that overthrows houses, but if the occasion on which each is used, were clear, the two things would not have the same letters. Knowing them as I did these things beforehand, by no drug did I think I should so far destroy these sentiments, as to fall into an opposite way of thinking.

What profit was it to live on,
Friend, with my grief kept and mine honour gone?

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