"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

"You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age."

"There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love."

"He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray."

"Even his griefs are a joy long after to one that remembers all that he wrought and endured."

"There is nothing more dread and more shameless than a woman who plans such deeds in her heart as the foul deed which she plotted when she contrived her husband's murder."

"Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason."

"We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means."

"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."

"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time."

"Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world."

"Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power."