"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."

"It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave."

"There is a fullness of all things, even of sleep and love."

"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."

"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."

"The fates have given mankind a patient soul."

"I will say this about being an optimist-- even when things don't turn out well, you are certain they will get better."

"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error."

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

"The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - to others, a death toll."

"I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not."

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown."