Euripide: Frasi in inglese

Euripide era tragediografo ateniese. Frasi in inglese.
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“Do not mistake the rule of force
for true power. Men are not shaped by force.”

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Euripidés Le Baccanti

Origine: The Bacchae

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

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Euripidés Alcesti

Origine: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 783-4

“There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.”

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Euripidés Iphigenia in Tauris

Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 412 BC) l. 721

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”

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Euripidés

Phrixus, Frag. 927

“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.”

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Euripidés Medea

Origine: Medea

“It's human; we all put self interest first.”

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Euripidés Medea

Origine: Medea

“Authority is never without hate.”

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Euripidés Ion

Ion (c. 421-408 BC) as translated by Ronald F. Willetts

“For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.”

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Euripidés Medea

Origine: Medea

“She sings a dark destructive song.”

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Euripidés Medea

Origine: Medea

“I understand too well the dreadful act
I'm going to commit, but my judgement
can't check my anger, and that incites
the greatest evils human beings do.”

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Euripidés Medea

Origine: Medea

“I care for riches, to make gifts
To friends, or lead a sick man back to health
With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth
For daily gladness; once a man be done
With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.”

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Euripidés Electra

Electra (413 BC)

“Silence is an answer in the eyes of the wise.”

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Euripidés

Unidentified Plays, Fragment 977
Variant translation: Silence is true wisdom's best reply. (See Discussion page for sourcing information)

“Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.”

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Euripidés Antiope

Antiope, Frag. 204

“In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.”

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Euripidés Hippolytus

Variant translations: Among mortals second thoughts are the wisest.
Second thoughts are ever wiser.
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
Origine: Hippolytus (428 BC), l. 435, as translated by David Grene