“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”
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Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably written by Critias. Eighteen or nineteen of Euripides' plays have survived complete. There has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds and ignoring classical evidence that the play was his.[1] Fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays also survive. More of his plays have survived than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, because of the unique nature of the Euripidean manuscript tradition. ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides
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“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”
“No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.”
“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.”
“Better a serpent than a stepmother!”
“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.”
“'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.”
“The wavering mind is but a base possession.”
“Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.”