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
deep-love hatred worst
The worst, the least curable hatred is that which has superseded deep love.
pain joy
Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.
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.
inspiration men contemplation
Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.
motivational
A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
happiness long long-life
No one is happy all his life long.
struggle men dies
How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
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.
men thousand ten
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.
children wife firsts
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.
sweet revenge justice
This is sweet to see your foe, perish and pay to justice all he owes.
grief wine sleep
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
pain children eye
What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?
daughter sweet father
To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.