Euripides Euripides Do not consider painful what is good for you. New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. 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. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.