Euripides

Playwright

Euripides was a pivotal ancient Greek playwright known for his exploration of complex human emotions and social issues in works like 'Medea.'

Born
January 1, 0480
Died
January 1, 0406
Quotes
431
Rank
#180

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"All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!"

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"Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another."

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"If all men saw the fair and wise the same men would not have debaters' double strife."

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"The gifts of bad men bring no good with them."

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"In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends."

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"For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never."

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"It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred."

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"And wealth abides not, it is but for a day."

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"The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do."

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"There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved."

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"The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all."

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"The wife should yield in all things to her lord"

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"Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays."

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"Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event."

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"Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different."

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"Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon."

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"Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment."

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