Quotes of the day- Euripides:
Euripides (c. 480 – 406 BC)
was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, and is
identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced
drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of
traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary
circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that
later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of
romance. Yet he also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the
inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown.
He was "the creator of... that cage which is the theatre of
Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and
Strindberg," in which "...imprisoned men and women destroy each other by
the intensity of their loves and hates", and yet he was also the
literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George
Bernard Shaw. (Click
for full article.)
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
When good men die their goodness does not perish,
But lives though
they are gone. As for the bad,
All that was theirs dies and is buried
with them.
Authority is never without hate.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Death is a debt we all must pay.
No man is wholly free. He is a slave to wealth, or to fortune, or the laws, or the people [who] restrain him from acting according to his will alone.
Noble fathers have noble children.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Often a noble face hides filthy ways.
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave.
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Euripides pants, you bought 'em.-Unattributed
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