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Tragiker, "Kyklops", "Helena", mit seinen Stücken "Medea", "Iphigenie" und "Elektra" gilt Euripides als meist gespielter Dramatiker der Weltliteratur (Griechenland, 484 - 406 v. Chr.).

Euripides · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Geboren am 27.06.-484 in Salamis
Gestorben am 31.12.-406 in Pella/Makedonien
Sternzeichen: ♋ Krebs

• There's nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

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• Those who are held wise among men, and who search for the reason of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

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• Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

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• To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

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• Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

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• Try first thyself, and after call in God; for the worker God himself lends aid.

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• Vengeance comes not openly, either upon you or any wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

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• Virtue proceeds through effort.

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• Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

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• Wealth is of all things the most esteemed by men and has the greatest power of all things in the world.

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• What else is an old man but voice and shadow.

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• What we look for does not come to pass. God finds a way for what none foresaw.

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• When fortune smiles, what need of friends?

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• When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

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• Who does not detest a haughty man?

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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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• Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.

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• Whoso neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future.

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• Woman is woman's natural ally.

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• Women are women - tears are their portion.

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