I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!

Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them.

Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood grows more. And so with men: one generation grows, another dies away.

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable

[B]ut it is only what happens, when they die, to all mortals. The sinews no longer hold the flesh and the bones together, and once the spirit has let the white bones, all the rest of the body is made subject to the fire's strong fury, but the soul flitters out like a dream and flies away.