You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

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

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

This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.

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.

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

How can I study from below, that which is above?