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
men thousand ten
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
children wife firsts
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.
sweet revenge justice
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
grief wine sleep
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
pain children eye
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
daughter sweet father
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.
wells seers
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
exaltation mystery found
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.
men circumstances
Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.
destiny men luck
The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.
destiny lasts fortune
None can hold fortune still and make it last.
women medicine fire
The gods have sent medicines for the venom of serpents, but there is no medicine for a bad woman. She is more noxious than the viper, or than fire itself.
husband grieving waste
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
women sea rivers
Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.