WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/euripides/6979/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Euripides</b></a></p><blockquote>HECUBA: Then no man on earth is truly free,<br> All are slaves of money or necessity.<br> Public opinion or fear of prosecution<br> forces each one, against his conscience,<br> to conform.<br> <br>ἙΚΆΒΗ: [φεῦ.<br> οὐκ ἔστι θνητῶν ὅστις ἔστ’ ἐλεύθερος·<br> ἢ χρημάτων γὰρ δοῦλός ἐστιν ἢ τύχης<br> ἢ πλῆθος αὐτὸν πόλεος ἢ νόμων γραφαὶ<br> εἴργουσι χρῆσθαι μὴ κατὰ γνώμην τρόποις.]</blockquote><p><b>Euripides</b> (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist<br><i>Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη],</i> l. 864ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, other translations: <a href="https://wist.info/euripides/6979/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/euripides/6979/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=restraint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>restraint</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=freewill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freewill</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=conformity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conformity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=constraint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>constraint</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=desire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>desire</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fortune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fortune</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=inclination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inclination</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=judgment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judgment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=luck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>luck</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=mob" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mob</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=popularopinion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>popularopinion</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=resources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resources</span></a></p>