"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."

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

"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."

"The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly."

"A small rock holds back a great wave."

"If we believe we have no control, we acquiesce our real power, become subject to the decisions of others, and become like a leaf floating helplessly down a current of other people's decisions."

"September tries its best to have us forget summer."

"Friends are great and always seem to work by the appropriate will of God."

"With just enough of learning to misquote."

"If we don't chase things--sometimes the things following us can catch up."

"Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses."