Open your mind before your mouth

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

You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes and not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

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

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.