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Euripides Quotes about Marriage

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

"Antigone". Play by Euripides, estimated between 420 and 406 BCE.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.149, University of Chicago Press

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Euripides, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald (1936). “The Alcestis of Euripides: An English Version”

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Euripides (1958). “Euripides: Hecuba, translated by W. Arrowsmith. Andromache, translated by J. F. Nims. The Trojan women, translated by R. Lattimore. Ion, translated by R. F. Willetts”