يجب الحذر والحيطة من عدو أحمق وغد، أما إذا كان عدوك رجلاً شريفاً من بيت كريم فاخضع له، إذ أن خضوعك قد يلين قلبه. - Euripides

For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.

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

CRE. Now indeed cease from your grief, for it is time to think of the sepulture. But hear these words, O Œdipus; Eteocles, thy son, hath given to me the dominion of this land, giving them as a marriage portion to Hæmon, and with them the bed of thy daughter Antigone. I therefore will not suffer thee any longer to dwell in this land. For clearly did Tiresias say, that never, whilst thou dost inhabit this land, will the state be prosperous. But depart; and this I say not from insolence, nor being thine enemy, but on account of thy evil genius, fearing lest the country suffer any harm.