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Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama) QUOTES

Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama) QUOTES

1 " If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

2 " Which would you choose if you could:
pleasure for yourself despite your friends
or a share in their grief? "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

3 " Shall not I
Learn place and wisdom? Have I not learned this,
Only so much to hate my enemy,
As though he might again become my friend,
And so much good to wish to do my friend,
As knowing he may yet become my foe? "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

4 " AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux.

ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuvent obéir aux amis qui les conseillent bien. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

5 " To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

6 " Yet I pity the poor wretch, though he's my enemy. He's yoked to an evil delusion, but the same fate could be mine. I see clearly: we who live are all phantoms, fleeing shadows. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

7 " It is a painful thing
To look at your own trouble and know
That you yourself and no one else has made it "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

8 " فإن النظر إلى المصائب التي سببها المرء لنفسه ، والتي لم تفعلها سوى يديه ، يترك في النفس آلاماً مريرة. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

9 " أيتها المرأة إن الصمت هو زينة النساء. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

10 " heaviest of all woe Is theirs whose life is crushed beyond recall. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

11 " إن المرء إذا هاجم شخصيات عظيمة فلن تضل سهامه الهدف . أما إذا نطق أحدهم بهذه الإشاعات عن شخص مثلي -مثلاً- فلن يصدقه أحد ، فإن العظماء وحدهم هم المحسودون. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

12 " فإن الرجال الحمقى لا يقدرون ما يملكونه من نعم إلى أن تحرمهم الأقدار منه . "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

13 " إن قاوب البشر تتحول من الحب إلى الكراهية كثيراً. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

14 " All things the long and countless years first draw from darkness, then bury from light; and there is nothing for which man may not look. The dreaded oath is vanquished, and the stubborn will. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

15 " Oft we know not till we see. Weak is human prophecy. Judge not, till the hour have taught thee What the destinies have brought thee. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

16 " That all our gathered spoil was reaved and slaughtered, Flocks, herds, and herdmen, by some human hand, "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

17 " Ath. I will confound his sense although he see. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

18 " For now I feel All we who live are but an empty show And idle pageant of a shadowy dream. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

19 " And with loudly waxing mirth Heaping insult on thy grief, Each who hears it glories more Than the tongue that told before. "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)

20 " Every slander wins belief Aimed at souls whose worth is chief: "

― Sophocles , Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)