We alone are right-minded; everyone else is wrong.
[μόνοι γὰρ εὖ φρονοῦμεν, οἱ δ᾽ ἄλλοι κακῶς.]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Bacchæ [Βάκχαι], l. 196 [Teiresias/Τειρεσίας] (405 BC) [tr. Robinson (2014)]
(Source)
When asked by Cadmus about being the only men of Thebes attending the Bacchanal. (Source (Greek)). Alternate translation:
Because ourselves alone
Are truly wise, but others judge amiss.
[tr. Wodhull (1809)]
Yes, for we alone think rightly, the rest wrongly.
[tr. Buckley (1850)]
All else misjudge; we only are the wise.
[tr. Milman (1865)]
Alone: For we are wise, the rest are fools.
[tr. Rogers (1872), l. 179]
Yea, for we alone are wise, the rest are mad.
[tr. Coleridge (1891)]
Yea, we alone are wise; the rest be fools.
[tr. Way (1898)]
Aye, Thebes is blinded. Thou and I can see.
[tr. Murray (1902)]
They are all blind.
Only we can see.
[tr. Arrowsmith (1960)]
Yes, for only we are sane -- the rest are mad.
[tr. Kirk (1970)]
We are the only men right-minded; the rest are perverse.
[tr. Vellacott (1973)]
We alone think well, the others ill.
[tr. Neuburg (1988)]
The only ones with healthy minds. The rest are sick.
[tr. Cacoyannis (1982)]
Only we think right. The others vilely.
[tr. Blessington (1993)]
Yes, since only we reason well. The rest are fools!
[tr. Esposito (1998)]
The only ones in our right minds. The rest are mad.
[tr. Woodruff (1999)]
Yes, only we have any sense, the rest have none.
[tr. Gibbons/Segal (2000)]
Yes, we alone have sense, the others none.
[tr. Kovacs (2002)]
Yes, Kadmos because we are the only ones who can think straight. The rest of them? They are all wrong!
[tr. Theodoridis (2005)]
We alone've got it right; the others, wrongly.
[tr. Valerie (2005)]
Yes, indeed,
for we're the only ones whose minds are clear.
As for the others, well, their thinking's wrong.
[tr. Johnston (2008), l. 247ff]
The rest are blind. Only we can see.
[tr. Robertson (2014)]
We’re the only ones wise enough. The rest ... less so.
[tr. Pauly (2019)]
Of course; no one else has enough sense.
[tr. Behr/Foster (2019)]
We alone are sensible, all the others foolish.
[tr. Buckley/Sens/Nagy (2020)]