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 life-and-death want
Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.
life-and-death glory dies
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
death suicide trouble
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
death pain thinking
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
death sorry men
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
death men good-man
When good men die their goodness does not perish.
death men life-is
Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?
revenge guilt death-penalty
Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.
death dying tomorrow
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
brave earth ether fatherland wide
The whole wide ether is the eagle's way: The whole earth is a brave man's fatherland
anger god greek-poet whom wishes
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
greek-poet love
Friends show their love in times of trouble.
dead future learning loses past youth
Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.'
education themselves travel
Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves