Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
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Euripides
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About Euripides
Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him, but the Suda says it was ninety-two at most. Nineteen plays attributed to Euripides have survived more or less complete, although one of these (Rhesus) is often considered not to be genuinely his work. Many fragments survive from most of his other plays. More …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by EuripidesHe was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
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To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
The best of seers is he who guesses well.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
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.
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.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.