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.
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.
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.
humble thinking enemy
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
death pain thinking
To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.
thinking wind rights
You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.
thinking goal strive
I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally.
thinking cleverness mortals
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
sex thinking night
If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.
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