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
effort virtue
Virtue proceeds through effort.
lasts shade virtue
O virtue, I have followed you through life, and find you at last but a shade.
virtue ifs wrongdoing
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.
dead future learning loses past youth
Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.'
gambling genius literature
The lucky person passes for a genius.
anger contest fall lets man wise
Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
greek-poet love
Friends show their love in times of trouble.
wisdom wise
He is wise that is wise to himself.
education themselves travel
Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
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.
happiness men accounts
Account no man happy till he dies.
waiting luck nine
Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.
blessed pride may
For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.