Euripides
Playwright
Euripides was an ancient Greek tragedian of classical Athens and one of the three major playwrights whose works survive in substantial number. His tragedies, including Medea and The Bacchae, are known for psychological depth and innovative dramatic structure.
Books by Euripides
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Medea
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Bacchae
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Hippolytus
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Quotes by Euripides
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Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.
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or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours
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Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive
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Again, where the people are absolute rulers of the land, they rejoice in having the openness and exuberance of youth, while a tyrant counts this a danger, and seeks to slay or silence those possessed of spirit, while the discreet fear his power and violence.
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Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.
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O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
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For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.
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When one with honeyed words but evil mindPersuades the mob, great woes befall the state.
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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.
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ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head
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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
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That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.
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Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.
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The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
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Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.
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Leave no stone unturned.
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Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
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The good and wise lead quite lives
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What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?
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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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