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

"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."

"I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another."

"It is equally wrong to speed a guest who does not want to go, and to keep one back who is eager. You ought to make welcome the present guest, and send forth the one who wishes to go."

"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."

"He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray."

"Democracy works. Against us."

"Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind."

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must man be of learning from experience."

"To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness."

"When a dog bites a man that is not news, but when a man bites a dog that is news."

"Criminal court is where bad pople are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges In family court, where good people are at their worst."