The only thing that is constant is change.

It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

May you have plenty of wealth, you men of Ephesus, in order that you may be punished for your evil ways

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

The people must fight on behalf of the law as though for the city wall.