Comedy is allied to justice.

These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

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.

[Y]ou 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.

The old are in a second childhood.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?