“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.”

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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.

A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

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

Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Do not take a blind guide.

Open your mind before your mouth.

You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.

A slave is but half a man.

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

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

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.

High thoughts must have high language.

You know they’re a pure soul when it breaks their own heart to break another heart even unintentionally.

Stop hurting yourself about things you can’t control.  

Let’s take a short break from the outside world because you are emotionally unavailable.

Friendship is a deep connection that cannot be broken.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

Some people may slip out of your life, but they sure stay for a lifetime in your heart and memories.

I left, cause I started losing myself.

Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew