Aristides de Sousa Mendes Quotes
- Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
(tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good… - SEA [Sophocles, Evangelinus Apostolides] (1838). A Greek Grammar for the Use of Learners. Hartford: H. Huntington, Junr.; New York: F. J. Huntington & Co. [Oft-quoted translation of some quotes.] - View Quote Details on SEA [Sophocles, Evangelinus Apostolides] (1838). A Greek Grammar for the…
- Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an… - Lysistrata: O women, if we would compel the men to bow to Peace, [...] We must refrain from every depth of love…. Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going? Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads? Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep?
(tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Lysistrata: O women, if we would compel the men to… - Rogers, Benjamin B. (tr.) (1909). The Wasps of Aristophanes. Cambridge University press. - View Quote Details on Rogers, Benjamin B. (tr.) (1909). The Wasps of Aristophanes. Cambridge…
- Walton, J. Michael (2006). Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English. Cambridge University Press (ISBN 9780521861106 ). Appendix: English Translations, “Aristophanes”, p. 253 -269. - View Quote Details on Walton, J. Michael (2006). Found in Translation: Greek Drama in…
- Arrowsmith, William (tr.) (1962). Aristophanes. The Clouds. University of Michigan Press. - View Quote Details on Arrowsmith, William (tr.) (1962). Aristophanes. The Clouds. University of Michigan…
- Lindsay, Jack (tr.) (1925). Lysistrata by Aristophanes (in English verse, illustrated by Norman Lindsay). Sydney: Fanfrolico Press. Online at Perseus /Tufts - View Quote Details on Lindsay, Jack (tr.) (1925). Lysistrata by Aristophanes (in English verse,…
- Sosias: The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Sosias: The love of wine is a good man’s failing… - Sausage-Seller: You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it’s only in troublous times that you line your pockets.
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Sausage-Seller: You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in… - Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
(tr. Athen. 1912, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I… - Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr. Rogers 1909, p. 110 ) - View Quote Details on Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.
(tr… - Chorus [speaking for Aristophanes]: Yet I have not been seen frequenting the wrestling school intoxicated with success and trying to seduce young boys; but I took all my theatrical gear and returned straight home. I pained folk but little and caused them much amusement; my conscience rebuked me for nothing. Hence both grown men and youths should be on my side and I likewise invite the bald to give me their votes; for, if I triumph, everyone will say, both at table and at festivals, “Carry this to the bald man, give these cakes to the bald one, do not grudge the poet whose talent shines as bright as his own bare skull the share he deserves.”
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Chorus [speaking for Aristophanes]: Yet I have not been seen… - Lippmann, Walter (1929). A Preface to Morals. Transaction Publishers (reprint ISBN 0878559078 ). [Oft-quoted translation of a single quote.] - View Quote Details on Lippmann, Walter (1929). A Preface to Morals. Transaction Publishers (reprint…
- Demosthenes [to the Sausage-Seller]: Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. Besides, you possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Demosthenes [to the Sausage-Seller]: Mix and knead together all the… - Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked… - Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and… - Fielding, Henry (tr.) & Young, William (tr.) (1742). Plutus. — Cf. Various 1812. - View Quote Details on Fielding, Henry (tr.) & Young, William (tr.) (1742). Plutus. —…
- Informer: My friend, I am asking you for wings, not for words.
Pisthetaerus: It’s just my words that gives you wings.
Informer: And how can you give a man wings with your words?
Pisthetaerus: They all start this way. [...]
Informer: So that words give wings?
Pisthetaerus: Undoubtedly; words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven. Thus I hope that my wise words will give you wings to fly to some less degrading trade.
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Informer: My friend, I am asking you for wings, not… - Athen. (tr.) (1912). Aristophanes. The Eleven Comedies (2 vol.), vol. 1 (Knights, Acharnians, Peace, Lysistrata, Clouds), vol. 2 (Wasps, Birds, Frogs, Thesmophoriazusae, Ecclesiazusae, Plutus). London: The Athenian Society. [Translator unknown (strangely attributed to Horace Liveright in Walton 2006<ref>The Athenian Society translation is by an anonymous translator or group of translators (though there is a "Foreword from the Translator"), and it is solely in Walton's Found in Translation that it is attributed to a "Horace Liveright", to which is also attributed a previous 1898 translation of three Aristophanes plays (both in Walton 2006, p. 255 ) for apparently the same society (the publication for this one being referenced at Athens instead of London ). On the one hand, it was indeed publisher Horace Liveright (1884-1933) who later reprinted the original 1912 British private edition in the U.S. (New York: Horace Liveright Pub., 1928, 1931, etc., stating: "This beautiful translation was originally published by the Athenian Society, London, 1912, for subscribers only. The name of the translator was not stated" ); on the other hand, it seems however unusual that this hard-partying U.S. businessman would also be an Ancient Greek scholar working with a London society on translating eleven plays: additional sources thus seem required for this translation attribution.</ref>). Many partial reprints within other eds., esp. O'Neill 1938.] Online Acharnians at Perseus /Tufts - View Quote Details on Athen. (tr.) (1912). Aristophanes. The Eleven Comedies (2 vol.), vol…
- Hickie, William James (tr.) (1853). The Comedies of Aristophanes (2 vol.), vol. 1 (Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, Birds), vol. 2 (Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, Frogs, Ecclesiazusae, Plutus). London: H. G. Bohn. Online vol. 1, 2 at Google Books. Online Clouds at Perseus /Tufts - View Quote Details on Hickie, William James (tr.) (1853). The Comedies of Aristophanes (2…
- Ramage, C. T. (comp.) & al. (tr.) (1864). Beautiful thoughts from Greek authors. Liverpool: E. Howell. “Aristophanes” (p. 39-48). [Oft-quoted translation of some quotes.] Online at Google Books - View Quote Details on Ramage, C. T. (comp.) & al. (tr.) (1864). Beautiful thoughts…
- Chremylus: And what good thing can [Poverty] give us, unless it be burns in the bath, and swarms of brats and old women who cry with hunger, and clouds uncountable of lice, gnats and flies, which hover about the wretch’s head, trouble him, awake him and say, “You will be hungry, but get up!” [...]
Poverty: It’s not my life that you describe; you are attacking the existence beggars lead. [...] The beggar, whom you have depicted to us, never possesses anything. The poor man lives thriftily and attentive to his work; he has not got too much, but he does not lack what he really needs. [...] But what you don’t know is this, that men with me are worth more, both in mind and body, than with [Wealth]. With him they are gouty, big-bellied, heavy of limb and scandalously stout; with me they are thin, wasp-waisted, and terrible to the foe. [...] As for behavior, I will prove to you that modesty dwells with me and insolence with [Wealth]. [...] Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy. [...]
Chremylus: Then tell me this, why does all mankind flee from you?
Poverty: Because I make them better. Children do the very same; they flee from the wise counsels of their fathers. So difficult is it to see one’s true interest.
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Chremylus: And what good thing can [Poverty] give us, unless… - Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious.
(tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand… - Dunster, Charles (tr.) (1785). Frogs. — Cf. Various 1812. - View Quote Details on Dunster, Charles (tr.) (1785). Frogs. — Cf. Various 1812.
- Goldstein-Jackson, Kevin (comp.) (1983). The Dictionary of Essential Quotations. London: Croom Helm (ISBN 9780389203933 ) [Oft-quoted translation of some quotes.] - View Quote Details on Goldstein-Jackson, Kevin (comp.) (1983). The Dictionary of Essential Quotations. London:…
- Poet: “Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no linen garment. He is sad at only wearing an animal’s pelt and no tunic.” Do you get what I mean?
Pisthetaerus: I understand that you want me to offer you a tunic. Hi! you (To the acolyte.) take off yours; we must help the poet.
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Poet: “Straton wanders among the Scythian nomads, but has no… - Blepsidemus: There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
(tr. O’Neill 1938, Perseus ) - View Quote Details on Blepsidemus: There is no honest man! not one, that can…
About Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was a Portuguese diplomat who fought against his own government for the safety of Jews living in Europe in the early years of World War II. Between June 16 and 23, 1940, he frantically issued Portuguese visas free of charge, to over 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazi terror, 12,000 of whom were Jews. I will not condone murder, therefore I disobey and continue to disobey Salazar. My desire is to be with God against men, rather than with men against God. If thousands of Jews can suffer because of one Catholic [Hitler], then surely it is permitted for one Catholic to suffer for so many Jews. I could not have acted otherwise, and I therefore accept all that has befallen me with love.
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