The gods help those who help themselves.

Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

He who flees at the right time can fight again.

He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the care of his relations and friends.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.

Nature made the fields and man the cities.

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.

Not all who own a harp are harpers.

What God want me to be, I shall be by His grace.

Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him, I wrote, with more confidence. It can't be done. More important -- don't let him try to change you. He can't do it either, but men always try.

Slowly, the light receded, and she could see a singe sword, hanging in the air, a sword of pure white, of light and truth.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.

The universe looks less like a big machine than a big thought.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

Real happiness lies within you.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.