Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.

The air is Zeus, Zeus earth, and Zeus the heaven, Zeus all that is, and what transcends them all.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

God might not be dead, but he's sure as hell missing in action.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Honour, in her modern self-confidence, had grown up never having to face actual raw, passionate, drop-down-dead-hostility. She didn't really understand what was going to happen,

It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of mere humanity, Or draw a line daring them to cross.

The older a fool is, the worse he is.

If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

I started connecting things to my body during my childhood. I approached the computer as a mediating element, as a form of visual art.