To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae..

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!.

It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy..

High thoughts must have high language..

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud..

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age..

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous cre….

By words the mind is winged..

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven..

The old are in a second childhood..

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever..

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!.

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings the….

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today..

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true..

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain..

You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know..

A slave is but half a man..

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them..