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Famous Euripides Quotes
Source: The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
Source: The Plays of Euripides
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.”
Source: Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus
“What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?”
Source: Euripides: Rhesus, translated by R. Lattimore. The suppliant women, translated by F. Jones. Orestes, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Iphigenia in Aulis, translated by C. R. Walker
“A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.”
“All men know their children mean more than life.”
Source: Euripides
“A wretched child Is he who does not return his parents' care.”
Source: The complete Greek tragedies
“Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.”
Source: Euripides III: Orestes, Iphigenia in Aulis, Electra, The Phoenician women, The Bacchae
Source: Euripides