Today things are better than yesterday.

A slave is but half a man.

One bush, they say can never hide two thieves.

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

A fox is subtlety itself.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

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.

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls.

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

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

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.

There's no art where there's no fee.

Chorus of women: ... Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

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

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

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

Better not bring up a lion inside your city,
But if you must, then humour all his moods.