Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip..

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod..

Today things are better than yesterday..

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods..

Under every stone lurks a politician..

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts hi….

You will never make the crab walk straight..

Old age is second childhood..

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner..

An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit..

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along..

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened o….

Comedy is allied to justice..

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole..

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed..

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless..

The love of wine is a good man's failing..

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends..

How can I study from below, that which is above?.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again..

There's no art where there's no fee..