I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
EuripidesRead
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Interpretation
True love and partnership are based on character and virtues rather than physical appearance.
In this quote, Euripides emphasizes that a lasting marriage is built on the inner qualities of a person, such as kindness, integrity, and shared values, rather than superficial attributes like beauty. The message highlights the importance of character and essential qualities in sustaining a loving and meaningful relationship over time.
In practice
This quote can be used in a wedding speech to highlight the significance of character in a marriage.
I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.
Mankind . . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
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.
Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.
There's a false perception that women in Africa somehow don't love their babies they way we do, don't grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.
There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - donβt want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.
We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly--as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth--the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives
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