As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.
Television! Teacher, mother, secret lover.
Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness – she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
No matter how good you are at something, there’s always about a million people better than you.
It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.
Wise to resolve, and patient to perform.
Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.
Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.
A decent boldness ever meets with friends.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
Trying is the first step to failure.
Far from me be the gift of Bacchus – pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds.
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.
Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.
Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend.