Euripides - Children Quotes

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The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

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A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.

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The man is to be envied who has been fortunate in his children, and has avoided dire calamity.

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Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

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The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.

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If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

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All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

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Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

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