Quotes from Euripides

Los mortales deberían contraer entre sí sentimientos amorosos moderados, sin llegar hasta los tuétanos del alma, y los afectos del corazón deberían ser fáciles de desatar para rechazarlos o apartarlos

For if I permitted this altar to be violated by force by a strange man, I shall not seem to inhabit a free country.

but whoever exercises the art of divination, is a fool; if indeed he chance to show disagreeable things, he is rendered hateful to those to whom he may prophesy; but speaking falsely to his employers from motives of pity, he is unjust as touching the Gods.—Phœbus alone should speak in oracles to men, who fears nobody.

Haydi yüreÄŸim, silahlan! Kaç?n?lmaz cinayeti iÅŸlemekte neden karars?z duruyorsun böyle? Haydi zavall? elim, k?l?c? kavray?p a??ver hayat?n?n bu ac? dönüm noktas?n?.

we women are the most pathetic. First of all, we have to buy a husband. Spend vast amounts of money, just to get a master for our body – to add insult to injury.

Çekinme, hat?rlama ne kadar çok sevdiÄŸini ve nas?l doÄŸurduÄŸunu çocuklar?n?. Bugün, sadece bugün unut, sonra tutars?n yaslar?n?. ÖldürmüÅŸ de olsan çok sevmiÅŸtin onlar? ve mutsuz bir kad?ns?n ÅŸimdi.

How far you are from understanding what my intentions are. May fruitful earth refuse to take my blood and the bright sky my spirit, if I ever betray you, if I let myself go free and leave you. I did the murder, too. I don't deny it.

Seni hak ettiÄŸin ÅŸekilde cezaland?rd?m ya, art?k bana diÅŸi aslan ya da Tyrheneli Skylla desen de hiç umurumda deÄŸil!

I am nothing but words, just a shape of dreams or night.

Tanr?lar?n tan?kl???na baÅŸvuruyorum, çocuklar?m? öldürdüÄŸün yetmiyormuÅŸ gibi, onlara dokunmama ve cenazelerini kald?rmama da izin vermiyorsun. Ah, keÅŸke hiç doÄŸmasalard? ve hiç görmeseydim bu ÅŸekilde vahÅŸice öldürüldüklerini.

Dare death with me. Death stands by you anyway.

But I wish to give you a wise piece of advice. When a friend is enraged with a man his friend, having met him face to face, let him fix his eyes on his friend's eyes, this only ought he to consider, the end for which he is come, but to have no recollection of former grievances.

for to Thebes this would be a reproach, if through fear of the Mycenæan spear I should give up my sceptre for this man to hold. But he ought, my mother, to effect a reconciliation, not by arms: for speech does every thing which even the sword of the enemy could do.

O child. You are mine, though you do evil.

CHOR. It is not right to speak well, where the deeds are not glorious; for this is not honorable, but galling to justice.

but Love, the tyrant of men, porter of the dearest chambers of Venus, we worship not, the destroyer and visitant of men in all shapes of calamity, when he comes.

HIPP. My tongue hath sworn—my mind is still unsworn. [17]

the follies of two when they clash together in the same point, are the most hateful ill.

IPH. But how didst thou dare the terrible deeds in respect to your mother? OR. Let us be silent respecting my mother—'twas in avenging my father. IPH. And what was the reason for her slaying her husband? OR. Let go the subject of my mother. Nor is it pleasant for you to hear. IPH. I am silent. But Argos now looks up to thee.

On the numberless references to this impious sophism, see the learned notes of Valckenaer and Monk. Compare more particularly Aristoph. Ran. 102, 1471. Thesmoph. 275. Arist. Rhet. iii. 15. B.

CRE. There is nobleness in thee; but there is some degree of folly.

ATT. Venus, who hath her station at thy gates. HIPP. I, who am chaste, salute her at a distance. ATT. Venerable is she, however, and of note among mortals. HIPP. Different Gods and men are objects of regard to different persons.

CHOR. Some dreadful wrath of the Gods hath burst forth, and leads the seed of Tantalus through troubles.

Å'D. O ye inhabitants of my illustrious country, behold, I, this Å'dipus, who alone stayed the violence of the bloodthirsty Sphinx, now, dishonored, forsaken, miserable, am banished from the land. Yet why do I bewail these things, and lament in vain? For the necessity of fate proceeding from the Gods a mortal must endure.