Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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 on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
High thoughts must have high language.
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us – not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
By words the mind is winged.
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
Comedy is allied to justice.
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.