Kaksi tragediaa Quotes

“So when my days have passed noiselessly away, lowly may I die and full of years. On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.”
― Seneca, Medea & Thyestes

“A king is he who has no fear; a king is he who shall naught desire. Such kingdom on himself each man bestows.”
― Seneca, Medea & Thyestes

“A king neither riches makes, nor robes of Tyrian hue, nor crown upon the royal brow, nor doors with gold bright-gleaming; a king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favour of the reckless mob move not, neither all the mined treasures of the West nor the golden sands which Tagus sweeps along in his shining bed, nor all the grain trod out on burning Libya’s threshing-floors; whom no hurtling path of the slanting thunderbolt will shake, nor Eurus, harrying the sea, nor wind-swept Adriatic’s swell, raging with cruel wave; whom no warrior’s lance nor bare steel ever mastered; who, in safety ‘stablished, sees all things beneath his feet, goes gladly to meet his fate nor grieves to die.”
― Seneca, Medea & Thyestes

“What madness pricks you on to shed by turns each others’ blood, and by crime to gain the throne?”
― Seneca, Medea & Thyestes

“This is the glorious, great privilege of kings, which time can never snatch away – to succour the afflicted, on a safe hearth to shelter suppliants.”
― Seneca, Medea & Thyestes

“Whoe’er has dumbly borne hard blows with patient and calm soul, has been able to repay them; it is hidden wrath that harms; hatred proclaimed loses its chance for vengeance.”
― Seneca, Medea & Thyestes

“Whence can I get vengeance? I would that he had a brother!24 A wife he has; into her heart let the sword be driven. Is this enough to offset my woes?”
― Seneca, Medea & Thyestes

“Naught to be feared I see, but still I fear.”
― Seneca, Medea & Thyestes