"Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool."

"Seize the hour."

"For Time calls only once, and that determines all."

"A city which belongs to just one man is no true city."

"Even a poor man can receive honors."

"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds."

"One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love."

"A man growing old becomes a child again."

"Without labor nothing prospers."

"You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering."

"The tyrant is a child of PrideWho drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity,Until from his high crest headlongHe plummets to the dust of hope."

"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."

"Whoever thinks that he alone has speech, or possesses speech or mind above others, when unfolded such men are seen to be empty."

"Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money."

"Time alone reveals the just man; but you might discern a bad man in a single day."

"War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always."

"How dangerous can false reasoning prove!"

"Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver."

"Always desire to learn something useful."

"Best to live lightly unthinkingly."

"A sight to touch e'en hatred's self with pity."

"Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish."

"Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day."

"Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven."

"The truth is what I cherish and that's my strength."

"If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink."

"I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State."

"Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing."

"There is no success without hardship."

"For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things."

"There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us."

"All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."

"But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies."

"Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another."

"You win the victory when you yield to friends."

"There is nothing more hateful than bad advice."

"No enemy is worse than bad advice."

"We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead."

"Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die, even without your decree:I am only mortal. And if I must dieNow, before it is my time to die,Surely this is no hardship: can anyoneLiving, as I live, with evil all about me,Think Death less than a friend?"

"No speech can stain what is noble by nature."

"The rewards of virtue alone abide secure."

"Time is a kindly god."

"Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is."

"If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice.""

"Gratitude to gratitude always gives birth."

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud."

"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing."

"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest."

"Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near."

"Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?"