Euripides ✓

tragedy writer Classical Athens

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[Wikidata] Classical Athenian playwright... | [Wikipedia] Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays at

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• Happy the man whose lot it is to know The secrets of the earth. He hastens not To work his fellows hurt by unjust deeds,… Admiration
• Bear calamities with meekness. Bear
• The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city. Born
• Cowards do not count in battle; they are there, but not in it. Battle
• It is said that gifts persuade even the gods. Funny
• The gifts of bad men bring no good with them. Bad
• But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. Brightness
• When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury, like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself,… Abates
• O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! Form
• Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad. Any
• The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is more worth than a thousand kinsmen. Allied
• Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety. Remembrance
• There is nothing more hostile to a city that a tyrant, under whom in the first and chiefest place, there are not laws in common,… Chiefest
• Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives. All
• Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven. Among
• To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet. Every Man
• Sanity brings pain but madness is a vile thing. Brings
• Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with. Foe
• If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source. All
• Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor. Escapes
• The nobly born must nobly meet his fate. Born
• It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes… All
• I have found nothing stronger than Necessity. Found
• The meanest life is better than the most glorious death. Better
• Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt. Brings

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