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Medea and Other Plays
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"Medea and Other Plays" Quotes

A collection of plays by Euripides, including the tragic story of Medea.

Quotes

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Euripides

lovehate

Man's happiest hour is the one that he has not yet lived.

Euripides

lifehappiness

I would prefer a deadly enemy to a false friend.

Euripides

friendshipenemies

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Euripides

godsreason

Love is a great thing, yea, a great good in all men's lives.

Euripides

lovelife

A good wife is the crown of her husband's life.

Euripides

marriagerelationships

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

Euripides

lifeuncertainty

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time when miserable.

Euripides

sorrowmemories

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Euripides

luckfortune

No one is so foolish as to prefer war to peace, in which, instead of sons burying their fathers, fathers bury their sons.

Euripides

warpeace