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Euripides

Classical Athenian playwright

481–407 BC

26 quotes, most often on Wisdom, Luck and God. Part of the Writers and Poets collections.

Man’s most valuable trait
is a judicious sense of what not to believe.
Helen, ll. 1617–1618 (tr. Richmond Lattimore, 1956)
- Wisdom
Humility, a sense of reverence before the sons of heaven — of all the prizes that a mortal man might win, these, I say, are wisest; these are best.
The Bacchae, ll. 1150-1152 (tr. William Arrowsmith, 1958)
- Virtue
- Wisdom
I looked upon man’s days, and found a grey
Shadow. And this thing more I surely say,
That those of all men who are counted wise,
Strong wits, devisers of great policies,
Do pay the bitterest toll. Since life began,
Hath there in God’s eye stood one happy man?
Fair days roll on, and bear more gifts or less
Of fortune, but to no man happiness.
Medea (431 BC), Part 2, spoken by MessengerIn context

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