Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a single honor, the brave with the weaklings. A man dies still if he has done nothing, as the one who has done much.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

And woe succeeds woe.

I was working on a flat tax proposal and accidentally proved there was no God.

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.