Euripides - Love Quotes

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The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

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Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

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Oh, what a power is motherhood, possessing a potent spell. Love, Light, Blessings

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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them....

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Oh, if I had Orpheus' voice and poetry
with which to move the Dark Maid and her Lord,
I'd call you back, dear love, from the world below.
I'd go down there for you. Charon or the grim
King's dog could not prevent me then
from carrying you up into the fields of light.

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You love the daylight: do you think your
father does not?

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Love distills desire upon the eyes,
love brings bewitching grace into the heart
of those he would destroy.
I pray that love may never come to me with murderous intent, in rhythms measureless and wild.
Not fire nor stars have stronger bolts than those of Aphrodite sent by the hand of Eros, Zeus's child.

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Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

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Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

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When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness.

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I would win my way to the coast, apple-bearing Hesperian coast of which the minstrels sing, where the Lord of the Ocean denies the voyager further sailing, and fixes the solemn limit of Heaven which giant Atlas upholds. There the streams flow with ambrosia by Zeus's bed of love, and holy Earth, the giver of life, yields to the gods rich blessedness.

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I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

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There is desire in those who love to hear about their loved ones' pains.

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