No greater evil can a man endure Than a bad wife, nor find a greater good Than one both good and wise; and each man speaks As judging by the experience of his life.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.

Always desire to learn something useful

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Never tell her that something is impossible, because she'll kill herself proving you wrong.

To ridicule philosophy is truly philosophical. [Fr., Se moquer de la philosophie c'est vraiment philosophe.]

I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

We no more forget the faces of our enemies than of those we love.