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About Euripides

Euripides was 5th-century bc athenian playwright. Euripides was a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy for whom any plays have survived in full. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Anger — Managing emotion, frustration, and the fires within
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More quotes by Euripides

“The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.”
— Euripides
happiness

“When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.”
— Euripides
inspirational

“One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.”
— Euripides
friendship

“ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred with out a head”
— Euripides
war

“Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.”
— Euripides
wisdom

“Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?”
— Euripides
death philosophical profound wisdom
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