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480 BC–406 BC Greece
Euripides (Ancient Greek: Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs; c. 480 BC–406 BC) was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three named authors of Greek tragedy for whom any plays have survived in full.
Also known as: Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad, Those whom God would destroy he first makes mad, Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad, Those whom the gods would destroy they first make mad, Whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad, Whom God would destroy he first makes mad
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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.
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
Bacchae (-405)
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.
No! a Spartan maid could not be chaste, e'en if she would, who leaves her home and bares her limbs and lets her robe float free, to share with youths their races and their sports.
Andromache (-425)
One thing only, they say, competes in value with life, the possession of a heart blameless and good.
Hippolytus (-428)
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind.
A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!
Ion (-413)
Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
Medea (-431)
Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Helen (-412)
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
How fair is chastity however viewed, whose fruit is good repute amongst men.
Hippolytus (-428)
'Tis painful coming to one's senses again, and madness, evil though it be, has this advantage, that one has no knowledge of reason's overthrow.
Hippolytus (-428)
'Tis part of human wisdom to conceal the deed of shame.
Hippolytus (-428)
There is no worse evil than a bad woman; and nothing has ever been produced better than a good one.
frag. Melanippe. Reported in Hoyt's (1922)
But this is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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