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Euripides on Wedding

480 BC–406 BC Greece

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14 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)

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Alcestis (-438)

The greatest safeguard this when wife and husband do agree.

Medea (-431)

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

Orestes (-408)

A second wife
is hateful to the children of the first,
a viper is not more hateful.

Alcestis (-438)

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.

Thou art by no means the first nor yet shalt be the last of men to lose a wife of worth; know this, we all of us are debtors unto death.

Alcestis (-438)

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

Medea (-431)

To mate a youth with a young wife is ill;
Seeing a man's strength lasteth, while the bloom
Of beauty quickly leaves a woman's form.

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

Medea (-431)

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Misattributed

Attribution

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