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Whoever escapes marriage
And women's harm, comes to deadly old age
Without any son to support him.

— Stanley Lombardo Works and Days and Theogony (1993)

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When the defiant boy, whose heart had never trembled,
saw this girl at the head of her troop of companions
he stiffened, and every bone in his body
absorbed liquid fire.

Statius: Achilleid (2015)

Don't try to cut any deals with me, Hector.
Do lions make peace treaties with men?
Do wolves and lambs agree to get along?

Iliad (1997)

The person who casts off desires,
who acts free from craving and lust,
indifferent to "I, my, me,"
that person will arrive at peace.

Bhagavad Gita (2019)

There's no way to get around the mind of Zeus.

Works and Days and Theogony (1993)

I have borne what no man
Who has walked this earth has ever yet borne.
I have kissed the hand of the man who killed my son.

Iliad (1997)

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Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance (1893)

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Samuel Johnson

The best way to worship God is to love your wife.

Victor Hugo Les Misérables (1862)

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