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Euripides

Read through the most famous quotes from Euripides




It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.


— Euripides


#beauty #fine #girl #husband #keep

Cleverness is not wisdom.


— Euripides


#cleverness

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.


— Euripides


#first #god #mad #makes #those

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.


— Euripides


#reply #silence #true #wisdom

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.


— Euripides


#daughter #dearer #father #growing #growing old

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.


— Euripides


#gain #ignorance #misfortunes

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.


— Euripides


#blows #human #misery #must #somewhere

But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.


— Euripides


#die #learn #must #pay

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.


— Euripides


#around #balance #best #great #keep

The greatest pleasure of life is love.


— Euripides


#greatest #greatest pleasure #love #pleasure






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However its rhythms are somewhat freer and more natural than that of his predecessors and the vocabulary has been expanded to allow for intellectual and psychological subtleties. a type of the war-time demagogues that were active in Athens during the Peloponnesian War. For example it is possible that he never visited Macedonia at all or if he did he might have been drawn there by King Archelaus with incentives that were also offered to other artists.

480 – 406 BC) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Recent scholarship casts doubt on ancient biographies of Euripides. Whereas Socrates was eventually put on trial and executed as a corrupting influence Euripides chose a voluntary exile in old age dying in Macedonia.

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