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
evil may should
Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.
gone may today
Today's today. Tomorrow we may be ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.
may flow wealth
Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.
blessed pride may
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.
men liberty may
This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free.
children military may
Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.
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
anger contest fall lets man wise
Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
gambling genius literature
The lucky person passes for a genius.
alone brunt conscience life quite stands throughout
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.