“Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.”

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

Those who are politically apathetic can only survive if they are supported by people who are capable of taking action.

For a man’s counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

I am more afraid of our own mistakes than of our enemies’ designs.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. – Aeschylus Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time.

It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one’s enemies with courage.

The marketplace is democratic.

When you find your purpose, all your pieces suddenly become functional, even the broken ones.

Never mess with a poets heart for they know how to turn broken pieces in a written masterpiece of art.

Ask me about the time you broke my heart and I’ll tell you how I put it back together again.

My love is like a lonely light wandering through the darkness searching for a home.

Sadness that is caused by the absence of love is deadly for the heart.

I broke my own heart, hoping that you would find parts of me that you could love.

And all the stars in the deep blue sky are the tears of the moon; the ones he cried while dreaming about the sun

Heartbroken over a love that didn’t even exist.