"Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it."

"Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles, son of Peleus..."

"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."

"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."

"Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war."

"What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?"

"Science is but the statement of truth found out."

"Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason."

"I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck."

"The agenda of the roadblock is the philosophy of the stop sign."

"We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to go forward."