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Euripides
 Greek tragic dramatist

| “ | Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances. | ” |
| “ | Do not consider painful what is good for you. | ” |
| “ | Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.
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| “ | Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. | ” |
| “ | 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.
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| “ | The wisest men follow their own direction.
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| “ | Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
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| “ | When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him. | ” |
| “ | Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. | ” |
| “ | Your very silence shows you agree.
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