“A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.”
Quote by Euripides
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Source: The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version
“A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.”
“You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.”
Source: The Electra of Euripides Translated into English rhyming verse
“My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.”
Source: Euripides: Alcestis. The Medea. The Heracleidae. Hippolytus. The Cyclops. Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Helen. Hecuba. Andromache. The Trojan women
“Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.”
Source: Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus
“It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.”
Source: Medea