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
sex night thinking
If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.
destiny men tears
Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.
safety holding-on security
Nothing's as good as holding on to safety.
silence tongue truest
The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.
men enough sufficiency
Sufficiency's enough for men of sense.
men law cities
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.
running grief giving
Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
toil ifs unbelief
If there are none [gods], All our toil is without meaning.
men heaven helping
The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.
dark men way
How dark are all the ways of god to man!
marriage men winning
A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.
ocean earth savages
Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.
wise dream thinking
Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.
age temper difficult
Oftener than not the old are uncontrollable; Their tempers make them difficult to deal with.