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How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.
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Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
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Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.
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Disaster appears, to crush
one man now, but afterward another.
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Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
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What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
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If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.
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My mother was accursed the night she bore me, and I am faint with envy of all the dead.
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I would win my way to the coast, apple-bearing Hesperian coast of which the minstrels sing, where the Lord of the Ocean denies the voyager further sailing, and fixes the solemn limit of Heaven which giant Atlas upholds. There the streams flow with ambrosia by Zeus's bed of love, and holy Earth, the giver of life, yields to the gods rich blessedness.
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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.
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Never shall I say that marriage brings more joy than pain.
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Sweet is the remembrance of troubles when you are in safety.
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What greater grief than the loss of one's
native land.
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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.
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Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.
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The man who melts with social sympathy, though not allied, is more worth than a thousand kinsmen.
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These men won eight victories over the Syracusans when the favor of the gods was equal for both sides.
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The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind bravery if forethought.
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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
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Today's today. Tomorrow we may be
ourselves gone down the drain of Eternity.
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Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.
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Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lend aid.
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I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the chanting of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.
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Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.
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Born:
480 BC
Died:
406 BC
(aged 74)
Bio:
Euripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. He is one of the few whose plays have survived, with the others being Aeschylus, Sophocles, and potentially Euphorion.
Known for:
Medea
The Bacchae
Hippolytus
Alcestis
The Trojan Women
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