Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years.

Speeches are like babies-easy to conceive but hard to deliver.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

All things are full of gods.