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
true-evil faults bears
Worse than a true evil is it to bear the burden of faults that are not truly yours.
evil may should
Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.
evil mind woe
When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
women evil terrible
There is no evil as terrible as a woman.
men evil disease
Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.
evil religion atheism
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
evil stronger criminal-mind
I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.
men evil evil-man
Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.
men evil bad-man
The gift of a bad man can bring no good.
evil giving madmen
Only a madman would give good for evil
kings cities evil
Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words No undue credence: for I say that kings Kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those Who live calm pious lives day after day All divinity Is built-up from our good and evil luck.
evil bad-woman evil-women
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
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.