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Quotes from Alcestis — Euripides

480 BC–406 BC Greece

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11 quotes

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Alcestis (-438)

Count the present day thine own, the rest to Fortune yield.

Alcestis (-438)

Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest.

Alcestis (-438)

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

Alcestis (-438)

Dishonour will not trouble me, once I am dead.

Alcestis (-438)

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

Alcestis (-438)

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)

Death is the common debt of man; no mortal really knows if he will live to see the morrow's light; for Fortune's issues are not in our ken, beyond the teacher's rule they lie, no art can master them.

Alcestis (-438)

I have found power in the mysteries of thought,
Exaltation in the changing of the Muses;
I have been versed in the reasonings of men;
But Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

Alcestis (-438)

χρόνος μαλάξει, νῦν δ᾿ ἔθ᾿ ἡβάσκει, κακόν.

Alcestis (-438)

Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetry
with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,
I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.
I'd go down there for you. Charôn or the grim
King's dog could not prevent me then
from carrying you up into the fields of light.

Alcestis (-438)

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