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“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]”

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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. more

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