"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."

"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."

"All men have need of the gods."

"I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown."

"All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious."

"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."

"Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law."

"Good men must be affectionate men."

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."

"Equations are the devil's sentences."

"Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision."

"There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."