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
beauty humans
Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
hope men undoing
That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.
emotional joy despair
There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.
gossip littles tongue
Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
drinking beer men
The man that isn't jolly after drinking is just a drivelling idiot, to my thinking.
gambling luck genius
Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
love-you eye heart
Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart....
death suicide trouble
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
hypocrite hypocrisy way
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
fathers-day children disappointment
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
time speak eternity
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.
fate men stronger
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses ... I have been versed in the reasonings of men but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
evil religion atheism
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
heart tongue my-heart
It was my tongue that swore; my heart is unsworn.