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Euripides

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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


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


— Euripides


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


— Euripides


#beauty #fine #girl #husband #keep

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.


— Euripides


#everything #learn #nothing #question #something

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.


— Euripides


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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.


— Euripides


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Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.


— Euripides


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Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.


— Euripides


#err #forgive #men #must #needs

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.


— Euripides


#angry #being #best #course #events

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


— Euripides


#die #learn #must #pay






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Did you know about Euripides?

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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