“There are indeed many wonders, and with regard to the stories people tell one another, it may be that such tales go beyond the true account and, embellished with iridescent lies, beguile them.”

“The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.”

“Become what you are.”

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”

“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,but exhaust the limits of the possible.”

“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.”

“Learn what you are and be such.”