Greek Playwright Quotes

Sophocles

Aristophanes

Aeschylus

Euripides

Menander

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool.

[...] your own are burning and your memories and you don't want to leave them. Everything will burn to the end, you suffer, but nobody is punishing you, they are just setting your soul free. Don't be afraid because while you fear death they will rend your soul like demons. Only calm down and you will see the angels who are setting you free and then you will be free.

Dimitris Lyacos