“Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.”

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

In every enterprise is no greater evil than bad companionship.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.

To learn is to be young, however old.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

For somehow this is tyranny’s disease, to trust no friends.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.

Only one accomplishment is beyond both the power and the mercy of the Gods. They cannot make the past as though it had never been.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Know not to revere human things too much.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Take courage; pain’s extremity soon ends.

Ain’t got no comparison and I ain’t being arrogant.

An average Christian, in an average church, listen to an average Sunday sermon has achieved a level of arrogance simply unimaginable in scientific discourse — and there have been some extraordinary arrogant scientists.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt.

The arrogant ego desires respect, whereas the humble worker inspires respect.

Arrogance can lead to death.

As humans grew stronger, I think that we became quite arrogant, losing the sorrow of ‘we have no other choice.’

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, and the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer.