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Euripides, a renowned Greek tragic playwright, is one of the three great tragic poets of ancient Greece, alongside Aeschylus and Sophocles. His life and achievements are not well-documented.

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“Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to and end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house.”

Grief Sadness

Book:Euripidis Medea

Source: Euripidis Medea

“Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”

Dream Loss Grief Shadow Tragedy Greek Mourning Bereavement

Author:Euripides

“MEDEA: The children are dead. I say this to make you suffer.”

Suffering Grief Marriage Revenge Infanticide Medea

Book:Medea

Source: Medea

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

Today Grief Tears Tomorrow Waste Losing Tragedy Yesterday Worried

Author:Euripides

“Time will explain it all. Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”

Way Helping Past Loses Love Is Grief Youth Tears Thousand Ten Waste Yesterday Neglect Loyal Loyal Friend

Author:Euripides

“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”

Inspirational Grief Tears Waste Grieving Live For Today Past Present And Future Past Present Future Future And Present Deep Life Past Present Future Love

Author:Euripides

“I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief”

Grows Grief Gratitude Prosperity Grieving Voyages Loathe

Book:Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion

Source: Euripides III: Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion

“Youth holds no society with grief.”

Time Grief Youth

Book:The Tragedies of Euripides

Source: The Tragedies of Euripides

“Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.”

Inspirational Motivational Grief Tears Waste Yesterday

Author:Euripides

“Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.”

Men Children Father Grief Lucky Disappointment Life Happiness Fathers Day Bitter Disappointment

Book:The complete Greek tragedies

Source: The complete Greek tragedies

“Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.”

Source: The complete Greek tragedies

“What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.”

Loss Grief Greater Land Native Lost Friendship Lost Friend Native Land

Author:Euripides

“Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.”

Stills Young Grief Cures

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“High honors are sweet To a man's heart, but ever They stand close to the brink of grief.”

Men Heart Grief Sweet Honor

Book:Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae

Source: Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae

“Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.”

Giving Littles Running Grief Gone Our Lives Concerned Day To Day Transience

Book:Euripides

Source: Euripides

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