Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
Old age is second childhood.
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.
Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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.
[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.
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
Comedy is allied to justice.
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.
High thoughts must have high language.
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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