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Quotation from The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
“Alas! there’s no man free: for some are slaves To gold, to fortune others, and the rest, The multitude or written laws restrain From acting as their better judgment dictates.”
The Trojan Women and Other Plays, Hecuba, scene with Agamemnon, trans. Michael Wodhull (1782)
When Agamemnon admits he fears the army's blame if he helps her, Hecuba observes that even kings are not free.
Citation: "Alas! there’s no man free: for some are slaves To gold, to fortune others, and the rest, The multitude or written laws restrain From acting as their better judgment dictates." — Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays, Hecuba, scene with Agamemnon, trans. Michael Wodhull (1782). (id euripides-trojan-women-and-other-plays-q8)
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
