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

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

"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."

"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."

"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."

"The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men."

"For what I have received, may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."

"I think it is good that books still exist, but they make me sleepy."

"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man."

"History is bunk."

"Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing."

"If dracula can't see his reflection in the mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?"