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NURSE: We’re ruined, then, if we must add a new
Evil to the old one we’ve hardly saved ourselves from.

[ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: Ἀπωλόμεσθ᾽ ἄρ᾽, εἰ κακὸν προσοίσομεν
νέον παλαιῷ, πρὶν τόδ᾽ ἐξηντληκέναι.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 78ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80459/

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Medea [Μήδεια], l. 78ff (431 BC) [tr. Podlecki (1989)] - Euripides | WIST Quotations

NURSE: We’re ruined, then, if we must add a new Evil to the old one we’ve hardly saved ourselves from. [ΤΡΟΦΌΣ: Ἀπωλόμεσθ᾽ ἄρ᾽, εἰ κακὸν προσοίσομεν νέον παλαιῷ, πρὶν τόδ᾽ ἐξηντληκέναι.] Reacting to the news that King Creon is going to banish Medea and her sons, on top of the…

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WIST Quotations moves again!Dec 6, 2024

A quotation from Rogers, Will:

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Last year we said, Things can’t go on like this,” and they didn’t, they got worse.
»

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https://wist.info/rogers-will/73262/

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WIST Quotations moves again!Aug 31, 2024

A quotation from Watterson, Bill:

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CALVIN: There’s no problem so awful that you can’t add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
»

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https://wist.info/watterson-bill/4076/

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Calvin and Hobbes (1986-05-26) - Watterson, Bill | WIST Quotations

CALVIN: There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!

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WIST Quotations moves again!Nov 6, 2023

A quotation from Shakespeare, William:

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O gods, who is ‘t can say “I am at the worst”?
I am worse than e’er I was. […]
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not,
So long as we can say, “This is the worst.”
»

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https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/20214/

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King Lear, Act 4, sc. 1, l. 27ff (4.1.27-31) [Edgar] (1606) - Shakespeare, William | WIST Quotations

O gods, who is 't can say "I am at the worst"? I am worse than e’er I was. [...] And worse I may be yet: the worst is not, So long as we can say, "This is the worst."

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