"Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed."

"I will not stir from this spot, but will wait for you to take my offer."

"Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth, our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man. So long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees, he thinks he will never suffer afflictio…"

"Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men -- old leaves, cast on the ground by wind, young leaves the greening forest bears when spring comes in. So mortals pass; one generation flow…"

"Even a fool learns something by experience."