Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always …

Euripides
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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs. ✨ Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). The complete Greek tragedies
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