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

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

"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."

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

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

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

"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

"Habits are like supervisors that you don't notice."

"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."

"If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all."

"If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields."

"Celibacy is not hereditary."