When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

And from this marvellous pan-Hellenic expedition, triumphant, brilliant in every way, celebrated on all sides, glorified incomparable, we emerged: the great new Hellenic world.

To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

Nero wasn't worried at all when he heard the utterance of the Delphic Oracle: "Beware the age of seventy-three." Plenty of time to enjoy himself still. He's thirty. The deadline the god has given him is quite enough to cope with future dangers.

What shall become of us without any barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.

One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.