Euripides

A bad beginning makes a bad ending.

The tongue is a wild beast; once let loose, it is hard to chain.

Many are the paths to death.

Fortune, the great commandress of the world.

Pride, which is the parent of destruction.

The life of man is of no greater duration than the breath of his nostrils.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the chanting of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

What is God? Everything.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

To die is less than one might think.

Love makes all men orators.

The best men choose virtue; the majority choose pleasure.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

A woman should be good for everything at home, save only for counsel.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse the life they have.

The man who flatters his wife, or she her husband, are both destined for woe.