Euripides
Euripides
Euripideswas a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but according to the Suda it was 92 at most. Of these, 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
dark men missing
It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.
stronger found
I have found nothing stronger than Necessity.
life-is glorious
The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.
hurt men wrath
Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.
children successful men
Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters.
wealth
And wealth abides not, it is but for a day.
thinking cleverness mortals
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
gone may today
Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.
wine terrible foe
Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with.
life today chance
Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.
time speak eternity
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
song heart joy
Song brings of itself a cheerfulness that wakes the heart of joy.
hate heart men
Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.
wise courage men
The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.