Euripides

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

"I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too."

"Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails."

"He is not a lover who does not love forever."

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

"Nothing has more strength than dire necessity."

"He was a wise man who originated the idea of God."

"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."

"Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad." - fragment

"The best of seers is he who guesses well." - fragment

"Time will reveal everything. It is a babbler, and speaks even when not asked." - fragment

"We know the good, we apprehend it clearly, but we can't bring it to achievement." - Hippolytus

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." - Hippolytus

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far." - Rhesus