Terrible is the force of the waves of sea, terrible is the rush of the river and the blasts of hot fire, and terrible are a thousand other things; but none is such a terrible evil as woman.

The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.

We must take care of our minds because we cannot benefit from beauty when our brains are missing.

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.

Mobs in their emotions are much like children, subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.

The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.