"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long."

"He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before."

"If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift."

"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."

"Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you."

"If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now."

"The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things."

"I like the dreams of the future, better than the history of the past."

"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."

"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."