Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one’s native land.
Quotes from Medea — Euripides
480 BC–406 BC Greece
30 quotes
Medea (-431)
The greatest safeguard this when wife and husband do agree.
Medea (-431)
The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.
Medea (-431)
The soul of the young is no friend to sorrow.
Medea (-431)
A stranger most of all should adopt a city's views.
Medea (-431)
Medea (-431)
It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.
Medea (-431)
Undone are we, if to old woes fresh ones we add, ere we have drained the former to the dregs.
Medea (-431)
Medea (-431)
When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.
Medea (-431)
Medea (-431)
To me a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all.
Medea (-431)
Medea (-431)
For the unlooked-for god finds out a way.
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Medea (-431)
This were surely a gain, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.
Medea (-431)
Woman is a weak creature, ever given to tears.
Medea (-431)
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards.
Medea (-431)
We are women, unable to perform noble deeds, but most skilful architects of every sort of harm.
Medea (-431)
Attribution
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