"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."

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

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

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

"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go."

"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."

"I'm a scientist; nothing shocks me."

"In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information."

"It's all make believe, isn't it?"

"Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow."

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."

"Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth."