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Euripides on Mother's Day

480 BC–406 BC Greece

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8 quotes

Yet all men are constrained
To love their fatherland; who saith not so,
Sporteth with words, his heart is otherwhere.

Phoenissae (-409)

For naught is there more sweet unto an aged sire than a daughter's love.

The Suppliants (-420)

Love is all we have, the only way
that each can help the other.

Orestes (-408)

Venus, thy eternal sway
All the race of men obey.

When it befalls poor mortal men to love,
Should they find worthy objects for their loving,
Then is there nothing left of joy to long for.

He is not a lover who does not love for ever.

When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.

Medea (-431)

Ah me! ah me! to mortal man how dread a scourge is love!

Medea (-431)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Euripides (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.