“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.”

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.

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.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.

Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.

Now just with memories, I can live happily with you.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.