Euripides - Medea

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

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For the weariest road that man may wend
Is forth fromn the home of his father.

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It's folly that women measure their happiness with the pleasures of the bed, but they do. And when the pleasure cools or their man goes missing, all they once lived for turns dark and hateful.

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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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Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

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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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Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

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There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man.

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What greater grief than the loss of one's
native land.

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Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

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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.

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

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Of troubles none is greater than to be robbed of one's native land.

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May temperance befriend me,
the gods' most lovely gift.

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I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.

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Men say of us that we live a life free from danger at home while they fight wars. How wrong they are! I would rather stand three times in the battle line than bear one child.

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When passions come upon men in strength beyond due measure their gift is neither one of glory nor of greatness.

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