Share this page: Be happy, drink, think each day your own as you live it, and leave the rest to fortune. -- Alcestis, lines 788-789 Alternative translation: Regard this day as yours, but all else is Fortune's. -- D Kovacs, tr. (1994) Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. -- Antigone, fragment 164 Men say of us that we live a life free from danger at home while they fight wars. How wrong they are! I would rather stand three times in the battle line than bear one child. -- Medea, line 247 A man is to be envied who has been fortunate in his children, and has avoided dired calamity. -- Orestes, line 542 Alternative translation: Lucky is the man who has been successful with his children and not got ones who are notorious disasters. -- M. L. West, tr. (1987) When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state. -- Orestes, line 907 Quotations about Euripides I depict men as they ought to be, but Euripides portrays them as they are. -- Sophocles, Greek dramatist, quoted in Aristotle's Poetics Share this page:

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