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Euripides

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• “το γὰρ ὀρθοῦσθαι γνώμην ὀδυνᾷ, τὸ δὲ μαινόμενον κακόν· ἀλλὰ κρατεῖ μὴ γιγνώσκοντ᾿ ἀπολέσθαι.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 247–49, Nurse (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “χρῆν γὰρ μετρίας εἰς ἀλλήλους φιλίας θνητοὺς ἀνακίρνασθαι καὶ μὴ πρὸς ἄκρον μυελὸν ψυχῆς.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 253–55, Nurse (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “οὕτω τὸ λίαν ἧσσον ἐπαινῶ τοῦ μηδὲν ἄγαν.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 264–65, Nurse (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “ὅταν γὰρ αἰσχρὰ τοῖσιν ἐσθλοῖσιν δοκῇ, ἦ κάρτα δόξει τοῖς κακοῖς γ᾿ εἶναι καλά.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 411–12, Phaedra (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “μισῶ δὲ καὶ τὰς σώφρονας μὲν ἐν λόγοις, λάθρᾳ δὲ τόλμας οὐ καλὰς κεκτημένας.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 413–14, Phaedra (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “μόνον δὲ τοῦτό φασ᾿ ἁμιλλᾶσθαι βίῳ, γνώμην δικαίαν κἀγαθὴν ὅτῳ παρῇ.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 426–27, Phaedra (tr. David Kovacs, 1995)

• “τὸ σῶφρον ὡς ἁπανταχοῦ καλὸν καὶ δόξαν ἐσθλὴν ἐν βροτοῖς καρπίζεται.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 431–32, Chorus (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “κἀν βροτοῖς αἱ δεύτεραί πως φροντίδες σοφώτεραι.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 435–436, Nurse (tr. David Grene, 1942)

• “ἐν σοφοῖσι γὰρ τάδ᾿ ἐστὶ θνητῶν, λανθάνειν τὰ μὴ καλά.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 465–66, Nurse (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “εἰσὶν δ᾿ ἐπῳδαὶ καὶ λόγοι θελκτήριοι.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 478, Nurse (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “ὄνασθαι, μὴ μαθεῖν, βούλου, τέκνον.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 517, Nurse (tr. Arthur S. Way, 1894)

• “τά τοι κάλ᾿ ἐν πολλοῖσι κάλλιον λέγειν.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 610, Hippolytus (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “ἡ γλῶσσ᾿ ὀμώμοχ᾿, ἡ δὲ φρὴν ἀνώμοτος.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 612, Hippolytus (tr. Gilbert Murray, 1902)

• “ἁμαρτεῖν εἰκὸς ἀνθρώπους, τέκνον.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 615, Nurse (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “πρὸς τὰς τύχας γὰρ τὰς φρένας κεκτήμεθα.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 701, Nurse (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “δεινὸν σοφιστὴν εἶπας, ὅστις εὖ φρονεῖν τοὺς μὴ φρονοῦντας δυνατός ἐστ᾿ ἀναγκάσαι.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 921–22, Hippolytus (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “οὐδ’ ἂν εἰ βούλοιτό τις σώφρων γένοιτο Σπαρτιατίδων κόρη· αἳ ξὺν νέοισιν ἐξερημοῦσαι δόμους γυμνοῖσι μηροῖς καὶ πέπλοις ἀνειμένοις δρόμους παλαίστρας.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 595–99 (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “ὡς δὲ μὴ μακροὺς τείνω λόγους, εἴ τις γυναῖκας τῶν πρὶν εἴρηκεν κακῶς ἢ νῦν λέγων ἔστιν τις ἢ μέλλει λέγειν, ἅπαντα ταῦτα συντεμὼν ἐγὼ φράσω· γένος γὰρ οὔτε πόντος οὔτε γῆ τρέφει τοιόνδ᾿.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 1177–1182 (tr. William Arrowsmith, 1956)

• “Τοὐλεύθερον δ᾽ ἐκεῖνο, τίς θέλει πόλει Χρηστόν τι βούλευμ᾽ ἐς μέσον φέρειν ἔχων. Καὶ ταῦθ᾽ ὁ χρῄζων, λαμπρός ἐσθ᾽, ὁ μὴ θέλων Σιγᾷ, τί τούτων ἔστ᾽ ἰσαίτερον πόλει.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 438–441 (tr. John Milton, 1644)

• “οὐδὲν τυράννου δυσμενέστερον πόλει, ὅπου τὸ μὲν πρώτιστον οὐκ εἰσὶν νόμοι κοινοί, κρατεῖ δ᾿ εἷς τὸν νόμον κεκτημένος αὐτὸς παρ᾿ αὐτῷ· καὶ τόδ᾿ οὐκέτ᾿ ἔστ᾿ ἴσον.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 429–432 (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “οὐδὲν ἥδιον πατρὶ γέροντι θυγατρός.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 1101–1102 (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “εἰσιόντι δ᾿ ἐργάτῃ θύραθεν ἡδὺ τἄνδον εὑρίσκειν καλῶς.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 75–76 (tr. A. S. Way, 1912)

• “ἤδη γὰρ εἶδον ἄνδρα γενναίου πατρὸς τὸ μηδὲν ὄντα, χρηστὰ δ᾿ ἐκ κακῶν τέκνα, λιμόν τ᾿ ἐν ἀνδρὸς πλουσίου φρονήματι, γνώμην δὲ μεγάλην ἐν πένητι σώματι.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 369–372 (tr. A. S. Way, 1912)

• “σκοπῶ τὰ χρήμαθ᾿ ὡς ἔχει μέγα σθένος ξένοις τε δοῦναι σῶμά τ᾿ ἐς νόσους πεσὸν δαπάναισι σῶσαι· τῆς δ᾿ ἐφ᾿ ἡμέραν βορᾶς ἐς σμικρὸν ἥκει· πᾶς γὰρ ἐμπλησθεὶς ἀνὴρ ὁ πλούσιός τε χὠ πένης ἴσον φέρει.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 427–431 (tr. Gilbert Murray, 1906)

• “μή μοι τὸ πρῶτον βῆμ᾿ ἐὰν δράμῃ καλῶς νικᾶν δοκείτω τὴν Δίκην, πρὶν ἂν πέρας γραμμῆς ἵκηται καὶ τέλος κάμψῃ βίου.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 954–956 (tr. A. S. Way, 1912)

• “τῷ δ᾿ ἀναγκαίῳ τρόπῳ ὃς ἀντιτείνει σκαιὸν ἡγοῦμαι βροτῶν.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 282–283 (Bartlett's, 1892)

• “τί δὴ φρονοῦσά γ᾿ ἐκ δόμων ἅμ᾿ ἑσπόμην ξένῳ, προδοῦσα πατρίδα καὶ δόμους ἐμούς; τὴν θεὸν κόλαζε καὶ Διὸς κρείσσων γενοῦ, ὃς τῶν μὲν ἄλλων δαιμόνων ἔχει κράτος, κείνης δὲ δοῦλός ἐστι· συγγνώμη δ᾿ ἐμοί. [. . .] ἦν οὑμὸς υἱὸς κάλλος ἐκπρεπέστατος, ὁ σὸς δ᾿ ἰδών νιν νοῦς ἐποιήθη Κύπρις· τὰ μῶρα γὰρ πάντ᾿ ἐστὶν Ἀφροδίτη βροτοῖς.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 946–950, 987–990 (tr. Philip Vellacott, 1954)

• “τοὺς πόνους γὰρ ἁγαθοὶ τολμῶσι, δειλοὶ δ᾿ εἰσὶν οὐδὲν οὐδαμοῦ.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 114 (tr. Richmond Lattimore, 1956)

  Also quoted by: Ευριπίδης (el)

• “ἀλλ᾿ ἔστιν, ἔστιν ἡ λίαν δυσπραξία λίαν διδοῦσα μεταβολάς, ὅταν τύχῃ.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 721–722 (Bartlett's, 1892)

• “θάλασσα κλύζει πάντα τἀνθρώπων κακά.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 1193 (tr. , 1897)

• “γενναιότητος καὶ τρόπων τεκμήριον τὸ σχῆμ᾿ ἔχεις τόδ᾿, ἥτις εἶ ποτ᾿, ὦ γύναι.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 237–238 (tr. E. F. Burr, 1880)

• “λυπρὰ γὰρ τὰ κρείσσονα.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 597 (tr. R. F. Willetts, 1958)

• “ἔχεις μὲν ἀλγείν᾿, οἶδα· σύμφορον δέ τοι ὡς ῥᾷστα τἀναγκαῖα τοῦ βίου φέρειν.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 252–253 (tr. A. S. Way, 1916)

• “ὅταν δ᾿ ἀνὴρ πράξῃ κακῶς ὑψηλός, εἰς ἀηθίαν πίπτει κακίω τοῦ πάλαι δυσδαίμονος.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 417–419 (tr. A. S. Way, 1916)

• “λόγος γάρ ἐστιν οὐκ ἐμός, σοφῶν δέ του δεινῆς ἀνάγκης οὐδὲν ἰσχύειν πλέον.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 513–514 (tr. Richmond Lattimore, 1956)

• “ὁ νοῦς τῶν κατθανόντων ζῇ μὲν οὔ, γνώμην δ᾿ ἔχει ἀθάνατον εἰς ἀθάνατον αἰθέρ᾿ ἐμπεσών.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 1014–1016 (tr. A. S. Way, 1916)

• “σώφρονος δ᾿ ἀπιστίας οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν χρησιμώτερον βροτοῖς.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 1617–1618 (tr. Richmond Lattimore, 1956)

• “ἐπικουρίαι γὰρ αἵδε τοῖς φίλοις καλαί.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 300 (tr. William Arrowsmith, 1958)

• “ΟΡ. δεινὸν οἱ πολλοί, κακούργους ὅταν ἔχωσι προστάτας. ΠΥ. ἀλλ᾿ ὅταν χρηστοὺς λάβωσι, χρηστὰ βουλεύουσ᾿ ἀεί.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 772–73 (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “ὅταν γὰρ ἡδύς τις λόγοις φρονῶν κακῶς πείθῃ τὸ πλῆθος, τῇ πόλει κακὸν μέγα.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 907–908 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)

• “ἀλλ᾿ ἀναγκαίως ἔχει πατρίδος ἐρᾶν ἅπαντας· ὃς δ᾿ ἄλλως λέγει λόγοισι χαίρει, τὸν δὲ νοῦν ἐκεῖσ᾿ ἔχει.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 358–360 (tr. A. S. Way, 1912)

• “δούλου τόδ᾿ εἶπας, μὴ λέγειν ἅ τις φρονεῖν.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 392 (tr. Elizabeth Wyckoff, 1958)

• “ΙΟ. αἱ δ᾿ ἐλπίδες βόσκουσι φυγάδας, ὡς λόγος. ΠΟ. καλοῖς βλέπουσαί γ᾿ ὄμμασιν, μέλλουσι δέ.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 396–397 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)

• “ἐπίσχες· οὔτοι τὸ ταχὺ τὴν δίκην ἔχει· βραδεῖς δὲ μῦθοι πλεῖστον ἀνύτουσιν σοφοῖς.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 452–453 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)

• “ἁπλοῦς ὁ μῦθος τῆς ἀληθείας ἔφυ, κοὐ ποικίλων δεῖ τἄνδιχ᾿ ἑρμηνευμάτων.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 469–470 (tr. E. P. Coleridge, 1891)

• “τῷ πλέονι δ᾿ αἰεὶ πολέμιον καθίσταται τοὔλασσον.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 539–540 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)

• “ἀσφαλὴς γάρ ἐστ᾿ ἀμείνων ἢ θρασὺς στρατηλάτης.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 599 (tr. T. B. Harbottle, 1897)

• “πᾶσι γάρ μ᾿ Ἕλλησι κοινὸν ἔτεκες, οὐχὶ σοὶ μόνῃ.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 1386 (Bartlett's, 1892)

• “τὸ σοφὸν δ᾿ οὐ σοφία, τό τε μὴ θνατὰ φρονεῖν.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: ll. 395–396 (tr. T. A. W. Buckley, 1850)

• “ΔΙ. ἄρρητ᾿ ἀβακχεύτοισιν εἰδέναι βροτῶν. ΠΕ. ἔχει δ᾿ ὄνησιν τοῖσι θύουσιν τίνα; ΔΙ. οὐ θέμις ἀκοῦσαί σ᾿, ἔστι δ᾿ ἄξι᾿ εἰδέναι.”

  Euripides (481–407 BC) said by 407 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 472–474 (tr. Colin Teevan, 2002)

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