Invite your friend to a feast, but leave your enemy alone; and especially invite the one who lives near you.

Never make a companion equal to a brother.

It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Love, who is most beautiful among the immortal gods, the melter of limbs, overwhelms in their hearts the intelligence and wise counsel of all gods and all men.

The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.

It will not always be summer: build barns.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem.

The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough...

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

The pale child, Eve, leading her mother, Night.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.

Being free means "being free for the other," because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

Being successful is a choice and, therefore, being defeated is a decision.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.