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

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.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

The love of wine is a good man’s failing.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

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

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.

Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

One night I prayed to God, I asked could he please remove my enemies from my life, and before you knew it I started losing friends.

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority.

To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.

Friends are nations in themselves.

I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

Sometimes friends are dangerous. We must be very careful about the help friends give us.

I’ve made a lot of sacrifices. When I was younger, I didn’t see my family. I’d go and train all the time, not seeing friends, leaving the country, and stuff like that.