WIST Quotations

Euripides -- Andromeda [Ανδρομέδα], frag. 133 (TGF) (412 BC)

Dave — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 16:16:42 +0000

Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.

[άλλ’ ήδύ τοί σωθέντα μεμνήσθαί πόνων.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Andromeda [Ανδρομέδα], frag. 133 (TGF) (412 BC)

Nauck frag. 133, Barnes frag. 21, Musgrave frag. 10. (Source (Greek)). Other translations:

'Tis sweet to recollect past toils in safety.
[tr. Wodhull (1809)]

Sweet is the memory of toils that are past.
[tr. Reid (1883), in Cicero, De Finibus, 2.105]

Sweet is the memory of sorrows past.
[tr. Rackham (1914), in Cicero, De Finibus, 2.105]

After commenting that "The Greek line is known to you all," Cicero renders it in Latin as "Suavis laborum est praeteritorum memoria."

Schlesinger, Arthur -- “The Historian as Participant,” Daedalus (Spring 1971)

Dave — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:48:17 +0000

The present, as historians well know, re-creates the past. This is partly because, once we know how things have come out, we tend to rewrite the past in terms of historical inevitability.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (1917–2007) American historian, author, social critic
“The Historian as Participant,” Daedalus (Spring 1971)

Zelazny, Roger -- Sign of the Unicorn, ch. 3 [Corwin] (1975)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, I wish I had known this some time ago.

Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American writer
Sign of the Unicorn, ch. 3 [Corwin] (1975)