Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Wait for the wisest of all counselors, Time.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now.

It is difficult to argue with the belly, for it has no ears.

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons. - Aeschylus Time is the wisest counselor of all.