[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.

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

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

By words the mind is winged.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.