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Quotation from Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays by Euripides

“It is better, my son, to honor Equality, who always joins friend to friend, city to city, allies to allies;”

Euripides (spoken by Jocasta)

Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, The Phoenician Maidens, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891)

Portrait of Euripides

Jocasta urges Eteocles to share the throne with his brother rather than serve Ambition.

Citation: "It is better, my son, to honor Equality, who always joins friend to friend, city to city, allies to allies;" — Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis and Other Plays, The Phoenician Maidens, trans. E. P. Coleridge (1891). (id euripides-iphigenia-in-aulis-and-other-plays-q6)

Virtues: Justice, Temperance

Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.

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