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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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But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
Undone are we, if to old woes fresh ones we add, ere we have drained the former to the dregs.
Medea (-431)
Men should have begotten children from some other source, no female race existing; thus would no evil ever have fallen on mankind.
Medea (-431)
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
Medea (-431)
Be content with help, not knowledge.
Hippolytus (-428)
Authority is never without hate.
Ion (-413)
Reserve in man is ever galling.
Hippolytus (-428)
Death is the common debt of man; no mortal really knows if he will live to see the morrow's light; for Fortune's issues are not in our ken, beyond the teacher's rule they lie, no art can master them.
Alcestis (-438)
The man who melts With social sympathy, though not allied, Is of more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
Ares (the God of War) hates those who hesitate.
For cunning woman, and man likewise, is easier to guard against when quick-tempered than when taciturn.
Medea (-431)
Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.
To me a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all.
Medea (-431)
To mate a youth with a young wife is ill; Seeing a man's strength lasteth, while the bloom Of beauty quickly leaves a woman's form.
But greatness that doth o'erreach itself, brings no blessing to mortal men; but pays a penalty of greater ruin whenever fortune is wroth with a family.
Medea (-431)
For the unlooked-for god finds out a way.
Medea (-431)
The lesser with the greater ever wars.
Phoenissae (-409)
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
Woman is but woman—born for tears.
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