Euripedes

Things to ponder every Birthday If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Hate is a bottomless cup I will pour and pour.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.

There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.

Whoever yields properly to Fate is deemed Wise among men and knows the laws of heaven.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.

The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.