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
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.
battle coward cowardice
Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it.
mother-daughter fathers-day dad
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
mortals dies ifs
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
hate war god-of-war
Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.