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
prayer lying men
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
wise men saws
If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife.
children mean men
All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
men honor human-life
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life.
rewards pleasure payment
In every work a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.
men prosperity
Some men never find prosperity, For all their voyaging, While others find it with no voyaging.
envy want poverty
Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.
greatness power hands
Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.
two unhappiness wretched
Where there are two, one cannot be wretched, and one not.
trying racist deeds
One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.
gambling luck genius
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
believe mad awareness
Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.
heart arms inevitable
Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
strong thinking way
That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.