A woman of hot temper - and a man the same - Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever. - Euripides

إن الحاكم الفرد (الطاغية) هو أسوأ ما تحظى به المدينة، ففي ظل حكمه لن توجد قوانين تحكم الجميع. ولكنه سوف يسخر القوانين لصالحه بحيث لا تفيد سواه، وهكذا تختفي المساواة. ولكن حينما يكون هناك دستور وقوانين مكتوبة فإن الفقير والغني سوف يتمتعان بالعدالة، ويكون منحق الفقير استخدام نفس اللغة التي يستخدمها الغني، وإذا ما أهانه الغني فإنه ينتصر عليه إذا كان الحق يقف إلى جانبه.

"P. 51, l. 915. The speech of the Muse seems like the writing of a poet who is, for the moment, tired of mere drama, and wishes to get back into his own element. Such passages are characteristic of Euripides. — The death of Rhesus seems to the Muse like an act of vengeance from the dead Thamyris, the Thracian bard who had blasphemed the Muses and challenged them to a contest of song. They conquered him and left him blind, but still a poet. The story in Homer is more terrible, though more civilised: "They in wrath made him a maimed man, they took away his heavenly song and made him forget his harping." Thamyris, the bard who defied Heaven; Orpheus, the bard, saint, lover, whose severed head still cried for his lost Eurydice; Musaeus, the bard of mystic wisdom and initiations — are the three great legendary figures of this Northern mountain minstrelsy."

Let mortal man keep to his own
Mortality, and not expect too much.