Simonides, 356

“For, whether it be great virtues or great riches, all things come to one terrible Charybdis.”

πάντα γὰρ μίαν ἱκνεῖται δασπλῆτα Χάρυβδιν,
αί μεγάλαι τ’ ἀρεταὶ καὶ ὁ πλοῦτος.