This is the law: blood spilt upon the ground cries out for more.

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.

It was only possible because it was attained. An Idea isn't feasible until it becomes reality

One can only organize so much and then leave the rest to fate.

I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.

Counter football is not something weak teams only can do by the way. It is sometimes said in a way as if counter football is inferior. It's not.

Slavery is an obscenity. It is not just stealing someone's labor; it is the theft of an entire life.

It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

Everybody sung in my family.