Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
AristophanesIf 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.
AristophanesWhen men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
AristophanesThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
Aristophanes