EURIPIDES (480-406 B. C), Greek tragic poet

Daughters
To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.—Sons have spirits of higher pitch, but less inclined to sweet, endearing fondness.

Friendship
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

Indecision
The wavering mind is but a base possession.

Mob
When roused to rage the maddening populace storms, their fury-like a rolling flame, bursts forth unquenchable; but give its violence ways, it spends itself, and as its force abates, learns to obey and yields it to your will.

Parents
Unblessed is the son who does not honor his parents; but if reverent and obedient to them, he will receive the same from his own children.

Patience
The conflict of patience is such, that the vanquished is better than the vanquisher.

Posterity
Time will unveil all things to posterity; it is a chatterer and speaks to those who do not question it.

Poverty
Poverty possesses this disease, that through want it teaches man to do evil.

Success
Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned among the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

Time
Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put.

Tyranny
Of all the evils that infest a state, a tyrant is the greatest; his sole will commands the laws, and lords it over them.

Wisdom
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.

Woman
For a silence and a chaste reserve is genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.