There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

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.

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

There are hard choices to be made in balancing the country's security and an individual's liberties. But it is a choice that has to be faced.

If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story.

A poet's mission is to make others confound fiction and reality in order to render them, for an hour, mysteriously happy.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!

When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.