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

"I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."

"Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the satisfaction."

"[Sleep is] the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."

"Death's brother, Sleep."

"To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep."