To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
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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 EuripidesSome wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
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One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
There is just one life for each of us: our own.
The greatest pleasure of life is love.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
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.
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.