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

"The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside."

"The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council."

"It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told."

"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."

"Things that we hear pass quicker from our minds than what we read."

"Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich."

"Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage."

"He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed."

"The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet."

"Religion is pickled God."