So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

Wine fills the heart with courage.

When you feel grateful, you become great, and eventually attract great things.

And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors.

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.