Euripides

Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

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

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

The bold are helpless without cleverness.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

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

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

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

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

Our ancestors... purged their guilt by banishment, not death. And by so doing, they stopped that endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

A second wife is hateful to the children of the first; A viper is not more hateful.