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

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

"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."

"Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus..."

"I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another."

"A companion's words of persuasion are effective."

"Well, all I know is what I read in the papers."

"I think when I work 14 hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky."

"The quest for philosophy's beginning is idle, for everywhere in all beginnings we find only the crude, the unformed, the empty, and the ugly. What matters in all things is the higher levels."

"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

"All persons living and dead are purely coincidental."

"People will buy anything that is one to a customer."