For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Agamemnon escaped with his life From land battles and sea storms, then fell to his wife.

Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

Be bold, take courage... and be strong of soul.

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

Only she is chaste whom none has invited

And he sets his mind to unknown arts

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.

Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. And he sets his mind to unknown arts.

And now I have finished the work, which neither the wrath of Jove, nor fire, nor the sword, nor devouring age shall be able to destroy.

...et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat. (to arts unknown he bends his wits, and alters nature.)

And besides, we lovers fear everything

She made up prayers and said them, Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing, Her customary magic, which would cover The white moon’s face and darken the sun with cloud.

He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Even as a cow she was lovely.