"A young man is embarrassed to question an older one."

"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."

"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him."

"Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish."

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

"Look now how mortals are blaming the gods, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies."

"The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged."

"Women prefer men who have something tender about them -- especially the legal kind."

"There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."

"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."

"Limited expectations yield only limited results."

"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking."