Euripides

“He who believes needs no explanation.”

“Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore”

“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”

“Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.”

“Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.”

“Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.”

“When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.”

“О Зевс! Зачем ты создавал жену?И это зло с его фальшивым блескомЛучам небес позволил обливать?Иль для того, чтоб род людской продолжить,Ты обойтись без женщины не мог?Иль из своих за медь и злато храмовИль серебро не мог бы сыновейТы продавать, чего который стоит,Освободив жилища нам от жен?Что жены зло, мне доказать не трудно.Родной отец за дочерью, ееВзлелеявши, чужому человекуПриданое дает - освободиЕго от дочки только. Муж, конечно,Отравленной украсив розой сад,Ей восхищен бывает. Точно куклуИль алмаз фальшивый, он женуСтарается оправить подороже.Но и мужей жена нищит, и только.И хорошо, кому попалось в домНичтожное творенье, чтоб ни злого,Ни доброго придумать не могла.Но умницы!.. Избави боже, еслиВ ней на вершок побольше, чем в других,Ума, излишек этот АфродитеНа пользу лишь - коварством станет он.Напротив, та, которая природойОбижена жена, по крайней мере,На хитрости Киприды не пойдет.”

“Ruthless is the temper of royalty; How much better to live among the equals.Let me decline in a safe old age. The very name of the "middle way".”

“I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.”

“Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgement.”

“A bad beginning makes a bad ending.”

“To generous souls every task is noble.”

“Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind itTo thy breast, and make thee deadTo thy children, to thine own spirit's pain?When the hand knows what it dares,When thine eyes look into theirs,Shalt thou keep by tears unblindedThy dividing of the slain?These be deeds Not for thee:These be things that cannot be!”

“Oh, say, how call ye this,To face, and smile, the comrade whom his kissBetrayed? Scorn? Insult? Courage? None of these:'Tis but of all man's inward sicknessesThe vilest, that he knoweth not of shameNor pity! Yet I praise him that he came . . .To me it shall bring comfort, once to clearMy heart on thee, and thou shalt wince to hear.”

“The good and wise lead quite lives”

“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”

“I understand too well the dreadful actI'm going to commit, but my judgementcan't check my anger, and that incitesthe greatest evils human beings do.”

“When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”

“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”

“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”

“Go home to your wife. Go bury her.”

“tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!”

“Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.”

“And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters.”

“Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.”

“So, friends, what method should we use? Hard to choose. I could torch them in their love nest or butcher them in their fragrant bed.”

“A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man”

“Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce -- the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.”

“power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.”

“What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?”

“All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.”

“She sings a dark destructive song.”

“We'll see how the sky catches fire. We'll see how she feeds the flames with her implacable hate.”

“She came into the world fierce and stubborn and then she learned to hate.”

“No one who goes against her can win.”

“Never that is shall die.”

“There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience.”

“Überstrahlst du solche, die sich hochgelehrt im Geist bedünken, bist du rings ein Ärgernis. (Medeia)”

“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”

“Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?”

“black evil is outlined clearest to our eyes by the blaze of virtue”

“courage is the gift of character”

“whose sons would cling bold to the craggy heights of war”

“Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.”

“What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?”

“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.”

“No creáis nunca que los opulentos son dichosos hasta no llegar su última hora.”

“Leave no stone unturned.”

“He is not a lover who does not love forever.”