Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Open your mind before your mouth

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

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.

When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.