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61 " Indeed it is not usual for the young to grieve. "
― Euripides , Medea
62 " What's strange in that? Have you only just discoveredThat everyone loves himself more than his neighbor? "
63 " What they say of us is that we have a peaceful timeLiving at home, while they do the fighting in war.How wrong they are! I would very much rather standThree times in the front of battle than bear one child. "
64 " Is love so small a pain,do you think, for a woman? "
65 " I am a curse upon your house as well. "
66 " And for thee, who didst me all that evil, I prophesy an evil doom. "
67 " And women, though most helpless in doing good deeds, Are of every evil the cleverest of contrivers. "
68 " But can you have the heart to kill your flesh and blood? MEDEA Yes, for this is the best way to wound my husband. CHORUS And you, too. Of women you will be most unhappy. MEDEA So it must be. No compromise is possible. ( "
69 " In your grief, too, I weep, mother of little children, You who will murder your own, In vengeance for the loss of married love "