Frases célebres de Euripidés
Frases de vida de Euripidés
Frases de hombres de Euripidés
Euripidés Frases y Citas
“No creáis nunca que los opulentos son dichosos hasta no llegar su última hora.”
Tragedias de Eurípides
“El que habla a un necio, aunque sea prudente, parecerá también necio.”
Fuente: "Las Bacantes", 405 a. C. (representación póstuma).
Fuente : Ifigenia entre los Tauros (c. 414 a. C.)
Euripidés: Frases en inglés
“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.
Fuente: 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.
“Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.”
Licymnius, Frag. 477
“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 <br class="br">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)
Euripidés The Suppliants
Suppliants (tr. Edward P. Coleridge)
“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
Euripidés Las troyanas
Troades (c. 415 BC), lines 946–950 and 987–990 (tr. Philip Vellacott)
“O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!”
Euripidés Ion
Ion (c. 421-408 BC) l. 238
Euripidés The Phoenician Women
ἁπλοῦς ὁ μῦθος τῆς ἀληθείας ἔφυ,
κοὐ ποικίλων δεῖ τἄνδιχ᾽ ἑρμηνευμάτων
Fuente: The Phoenician Women, Lines 469–470
Euripidés Hippolytus
Fuente: Hippolytus (428 BC), lines 426-427; David Kovacs' translation
“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.
Fuente: 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 Cyclops
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
Fuente: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 238
“Today's today. Tomorrow we may be
ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.”
Euripidés Alcestis
Fuente: Alcestis (438 BC), l. 788
