Euripides

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

He is not a lover who does not love forever.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Virtue proceeds through effort.

Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

If your life at night is good, you think you have everything.

Only a madman would give good for evil

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

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.