"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown."

"We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth."

"All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious."

"Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment."

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war."

"The single best augury is to fight for one's country."

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man."

"Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope."

"There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second."

"The mind ought sometimes to be diverted that it may return the better to thinking."

"Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."