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21 " My love for youwas greater than my wisdom. "
― Euripides , Medea
22 " MEDEA: The gods know who was the author of this sorrow.JASON: Yes, the gods know indeed, they know your loathsome heart.MEDEA: Hate me. But I tire of your barking bitterness. "
23 " What heavenly power lends an earTo a breaker of oaths, a deceiver? "
24 " MEDEA: The children are dead. I say this to make you suffer. "
25 " But my pain’s a fair price, to take away your smile. "
26 " Medeia — (...) Dizem de nós que vivemos uma existência sem perigos, dentro de casa, ao passo que eles combatem com a lança. Pobre raciocínio! Antes queria lutar três vezes debaixo do broquel que dar à luz uma única vez. "
27 " I understand too well the dreadful actI'm going to commit, but my judgementcan't check my anger, and that incitesthe greatest evils human beings do. "
28 " Since I am wise, some people envy me,some think I'm idle, some the opposite,and some feel threatened. Yet I'm not all that wise. "
29 " Gods often contradictour fondest expectations.What we anticipatedoes not come to pass.What we don't expectsome god finds a way to make it happen.So with this story "
30 " I will storm the Gods and shake the Universe "
31 " We must not think too much: people go mad if they think too much. "
32 " Let no one think me a weak one, feeble-spirited, A stay-at-home, but rather just the opposite, One who can hurt my enemies and help my friends; For the lives of such persons are most remembered. "
33 " Amongst mortals no man is happy; wealth may pour in and make one luckier than another, but none can happy be. "
34 " Why long for death's marriage bedwhich human beings all shun?Death comes soon enoughand brings an end to everything. "
35 " You have the skill. What is more, you were born a woman, And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers. "
36 " Oh, say, how call ye this,To face, and smile, the comrade whom his kissBetrayed? Scorn? Insult? Courage? None of these:'Tis but of all man's inward sicknessesThe vilest, that he knoweth not of shameNor pity! Yet I praise him that he came . . .To me it shall bring comfort, once to clearMy heart on thee, and thou shalt wince to hear. "
37 " Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind itTo thy breast, and make thee deadTo thy children, to thine own spirit's pain?When the hand knows what it dares,When thine eyes look into theirs,Shalt thou keep by tears unblindedThy dividing of the slain?These be deeds Not for thee:These be things that cannot be! "
38 " Nurse: "Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends".Tutor: "And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain. "
39 " It would have been better far for men To have got their children in some other way, and women Not to have existed. Then life would have been good. CHORUS "
40 " O Zeus! why hast thou granted unto man clear signs to know the sham in gold, while on man's brow no brand is stamped whereby to gauge the villain's heart? "