Plato was continually saying to Xenocrates, "Sacrifice to the Graces.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

Diogenes, when asked from what country he came, replied, "I am a citizen of the world."

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust.

Aristippus being asked what were the most necessary things for well-born boys to learn, said, "Those things which they will put in practice when they become men.

Don't allow ambition to rob you of destiny.

Like any man, he had no real protection from an unsolicited kiss from a pretty woman, even one he had just murdered.

You love who you love and that’s who you love.

To begin, begin.

Okay, I'm guessing you're gonna give us the bad news first because there's no good news?

For us, whether the market is skewed from a bubble perspective or not really is mitigated by staying focused on what we do best.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail.

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.