"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

"The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council."

"If you are very valiant, it is a god, I think, who gave you this gift."

"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."

"Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment."

"It is not possible to fight beyond your strength, even if you strive."

"I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow."

"In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene."

"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."

"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

"Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."

"I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American."