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Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Greek tragic dramatist [more author details]

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Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.: Euripides
Do not consider painful what is good for you.: Euripides
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.: Euripides
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.: Euripides
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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The wisest men follow their own direction.: Euripides
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Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.: Euripides
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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.: Euripides
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.: Euripides
Your very silence shows you agree.: Euripides
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Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.: Euripides, 'Rhesus'
I have found power in the mysteries of thought.: Euripides, 438 B.C.
A bad beginning makes a bad ending.: Euripides, Aegeus
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.: Euripides, Aegeus
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.: Euripides, Aeolus
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; a viper is not more hateful.: Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.: Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.: Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.: Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.: Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.: Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
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Time cancels young pain.: Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.: Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.: Euripides, Antigone
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I care for riches, to make gifts To friends, or lead a sick man back to health With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth For daily gladness; once a man be done With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.: Euripides, Electra, 413 B.C.
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.: Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.
Leave no stone unturned.: Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.: Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.: Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.: Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.

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