Euripides, Medea
"Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies."
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"Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies."
"أفضل قلبًا متواضعًا، وعيشًا بسيطًا. دعني أحيا بعيدًا عن مساس العظمة – وأستمر في الحياة. لا قليلًا جدًا، ولا كثيرًا جدًا: ففي ذلك مكمن الأمان."
Euripides, Medea
"In childbirth grief begins."
"في الولادة ينبع الأسى."
Euripides, Medea
"Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll."
"من يملك إيقاف انهمار الحزن متى بدأ تدفقه؟"
Euripides, Medea
"Not too little, not too much: there safety lies."
"لا إفراط ولا تفريط: ففيهما السلامة."
Euripides, Medea
"Old loves are dropped when new ones come"
"تُنسى الغرامات القديمة عند بزوغ حب جديد"
Euripides, Medea
"Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it."
"قدر الفناء قاسٍ، فخيرٌ لك أن تألفه."
Euripides, Medea
"I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once."
"لأن أخوض غمار الحرب ثلاث مرات أهون عليّ من أن أتكبد آلام الولادة مرة واحدة."
Euripides, Medea
"Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right."
"لقد ولى زمن الثقة في الأيمان؛ لا أدري إن كانت الآلهة التي أقسمت بها قد كفت عن الحكم، أم أن البشر باتوا يعيشون وفق معايير جديدة للصواب."
Euripides, Medea
"To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words."
Euripides, Medea
"Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life."
Euripides, Medea
"or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings. For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours"
Euripides, Medea
"Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive"
Euripides, Medea
"Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future."
Euripides, Medea
"O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?"
Euripides, Medea
"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."
Euripides, Medea
"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."
Euripides, Medea
"Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make."
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