Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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Under every stone lurks a politician.

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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.

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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

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Open your mind before your mouth

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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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By words the mind is winged

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