Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
High thoughts must have high language.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
Evil events from evil causes spring.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
