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1 " Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. "
― Euripides , Medea
2 " Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never. "
3 " For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood. "
4 " O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong? "
5 " Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future. "
6 " Of all creatures that can feel and think,we women are the worst treated things alive "
7 " or else I would have sung a songin response to what the male sex sings.For our lengthy past has much to sayabout men's lives as well as ours "
8 " Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life. "
9 " Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer rule, or men live by new standards of what is right. "
10 " I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once. "
11 " Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it. "
12 " Old loves are dropped when new ones come "
13 " Not too little, not too much: there safety lies. "
14 " Who can stop grief's avalanche once it starts to roll. "
15 " In childbirth grief begins. "
16 " Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies. "
17 " Hate is a bottomless cup; I will pour and pour "
18 " It's human; we all put self interest first. "
19 " I know indeed what evil I intend to do, but stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury, fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils. "
20 " death is the only water to wash away this dirt "