"Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."

"You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought."

"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself."