Love: a grave mental disease.

There is truth in wine and children

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another.

A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants

Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned.

Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back.