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Euripidés citáty a výroky
„Kdo ví, zda není život umíráním a smrt životem!“
Varianta: Kdož ví, zda není život umíráním a smrt životem?
„Z veškého bohatsví je nejlepší najít ušlechtilou ženu.“
Varianta: Z veškerého bohatství je nejlepší najít ušlechtilou ženu.
„Je pošetilé na běh světa zanevřít: vždyť vůbec toho nedbá.“
Ověřené
Zdroj: Ze ztracených tragédií Eurípidových, in:[Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus, Hovory k sobě, Mladá fronta, 1999, 80-204-0799-5]
Euripidés: Citáty anglicky
“Account no man happy till he dies.”
Sophocles in Oedipus Rex
Variant in Herodotus 1.32: Count no man happy until he is dead.
Misattributed
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
— Euripidés, The Bacchae
Bacchæ l. 480
Variant translation: To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Variant translation: He were a fool, methinks, who would utter wisdom to a fool. (translated by Edward Philip Coleridge)
Variant translation: Wise words being brought to blinded eyes will seem as things of nought. ( translated by Gilbert Murray http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8418/8418-h/8418-h.htm)
Zdroj: The Bacchae
“When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone.”
Temenidæ Frag. 734
Kontext: When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
— Euripidés, Alcestis
Zdroj: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 358
Kontext: Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetry
with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,
I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.
I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grim
King's dog could not prevent me then
from carrying you up into the fields of light.
— Euripidés, Bellerophon
Bellerophon
Kontext: Doth some one say that there be gods above?
There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool,
Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you.
Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words
No undue credence: for I say that kings
Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud,
And doing thus are happier than those
Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity
Is built-up from our good and evil luck.
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
— Euripidés, Orestes
Zdroj: Orestes (408 BC), l. 907
“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”
Zdroj: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
“This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.”
— Euripidés, The Phoenician Women
Varianta: Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
Zdroj: The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 BC)
Zdroj: Medea and Other Plays: Medea / Alcestis / The Children of Heracles / Hippolytus
“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”
— Euripidés, The Bacchae
Bacchæ l. 395
Zdroj: The Bacchae
“In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.”
Heraclidæ (c 428 BC); quoted by Aristophanes in The Wasps
Zdroj: The Children of Herakles
