Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C. quotes
"Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain."
"A second wifeis hateful to the children of the first;a viper is not more hateful."
"A sweet thing, for whatever time,to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost."
"Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest."
"Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead."
"You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you."
"I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the changing of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known."
"Time cancels young pain."
