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.
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
A slave is but half a man.
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
Wealth – the most excellent of all gods.
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
Old age is second childhood.
A truce to idle phrases!
Today things are better than yesterday.
A fox is subtlety itself.
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.