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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.

Euripides

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Euripides
Playwright
Tragedy Writer
Writer
Ancient Athens
Best
Balanced
Live
Acknowledge
Great
Powers
Thing
Balance
Really
Wise
Way
Keep
Men
Around
Life
Power
Safest

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