"A young man is embarrassed to question an older one."

"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long."

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

"The glorious gifts of the gods are not to be cast aside."

"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go."

"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."

"You don't need a lot of the stuff you think you need."

"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

"I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died."

"Everything has been figured out except how to live."

"A wise man cares not for that which he cannot have."