1. “All things can corrupt perverse minds.”
2. “And now have I finished a work which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor steel, nor all-consuming time can destroy. Welcome the day which can destroy only my physical man in ending my uncertain life. In my better part I shall be raised to immortality above the lofty stars, and my name shall never die.”
3. “By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move thelight chariot, and establish love.”
4. “Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
5. “God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.”
6. “Had I not sinned what would there be for you to pardon. My fate has given you the opportunity for mercy.”
7. “Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
8. “In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered.”
9. ”In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.”
10. “Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.”
11. “Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.”
12. “Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power.”
13. “My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”
14. “Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.”
15. “Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.”
16. “My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.”
17. "Nothing is more useful to mankind than those arts which have no utility."
18. “Presents, believe me, seduce both men and gods.”
19. “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”
20. “The gods have their own laws.”
21. “There is a god within us, and we have intercourse with heaven. That spirit comes from abodes on high.”
22. “There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature;the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.”
23. “Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.”
24. “Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.”
25. “Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.”
26. “Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.”
27. “We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.”
28. “We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
29. “Where belief is painful, we are slow to believe.”
30. “Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.”
