“Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.”

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.

Old age is second childhood.

You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.

It was the weirdest thing ever. I said to myself: why are people always so okay with not having me in their lives?

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.

You’ve gotta really touch people to move them to buy your records.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Don’t judge people and expect them to stand by your side.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.