“Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.”
Variant translation (by Paul Roche): For nothing is like the sorrow or supersedes the sadness of losing your native land.
Source: Medea (431 BC), Line 653 (translated by David Kovacs: Perseus Digital Library)
“I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly, greatest of deities.”
The Cyclops (c.424-23 BC)
“Good slaves [are affected by] the adversities of their masters”
Bacchæ l. 1028
the original sentence does not contain any verb
“Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.”
Pirithous
Variant: Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgement.
“Today's today. Tomorrow we may be
ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.”
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 788
Bellerophon, Fragment 298; quoted in Plutarch's Morals : Ethical Essays (1888) edited and translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto, p. 293
“The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.”
Phrixus, Frag. 970
“The credit we get for wisdom is measured by our success.”
Source: Hippolytus (428 BC), l. 701, translated by Edward P. Coleridge
“Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.”
Bacchæ l. 882
Variant translation: Slowly but surely withal moveth the might of the gods.
“I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.”
Supposedly in The Suppliants.
Also attributed to Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Disputed