ἁπλοῦς ὁ μῦθος τῆς ἀληθείας ἔφυ,
κοὐ ποικίλων δεῖ τἄνδιχ’ ἑρμηνευμάτων·
ἔχει γὰρ αὐτὰ καιρόν· ὁ δ’ ἄδικος λόγος
νοσῶν ἐν αὑτῷ φαρμάκων δεῖται σοφῶν.
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Polynice répondant à Étéocle.
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“Voilà qui est d'un serf, de taire sa pensée.”
δούλου τόδ’ εἶπας, μὴ λέγειν ἅ τις φρονεῖ.
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Jocaste réagissant aux propos de Polynice qui lui décrit sa condition d'exilé.
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Euripide: Citations en anglais
“Dishonour will not trouble me, once I am dead.”
Euripidés
Alcestis
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 726
“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”
Euripidés
Helen
Helen (412 BC), as translated by Richmond Lattimore
“Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.”
Euripidés
Hippolytus
Variant translation by David Grene:
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.
Source: Hippolytus (428 BC), l. 612, as translated by Gilbert Murray (1954)
“A bad beginning makes a bad ending.”
Melanippe the Wise (fragment)
Variante: A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
“Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.”
Heraclidæ (c 428 BC) line 722
Alternate translation : Ares hates the sluggard most of all. (translated by David Kovacs)
Sisyphus, as translated by R. G. Bury, and revised by J. Garrett http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/302/critias.htm
Variant translation: He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
“A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.”
Euripidés
Iphigenia in Tauris
Iphigenia in Tauris (c. 412 BC) l. 114
Bacchae l. 472, as translated by Colin Teevan (2002)
“Circumstances rule men and not men circumstances.”
Herodotus, Book 7, Ch. 49; Misattributed to Euripedes in "The Imperial Four" by Professor Creasy in Bentley's Miscellany Vol. 33 (January 1853), p. 22
Variant translation: Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Misattributed
“O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!”
Euripidés
Ion
Ion (c. 421-408 BC) l. 238
Euripidés
Les Phéniciennes
ἁπλοῦς ὁ μῦθος τῆς ἀληθείας ἔφυ,
κοὐ ποικίλων δεῖ τἄνδιχ᾽ ἑρμηνευμάτων
Source: The Phoenician Women, Lines 469–470
“Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.”
Euripidés
Medea
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.”
Euripidés
Le Cyclope
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
Variante: Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgement.
“Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.”
Euripidés
Alcestis
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 238
“Today's today. Tomorrow we may be
ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.”
Euripidés
Alcestis
Source: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 788
