“How can I study from below, that which is above?”

“A man can learn wisdom even from a foe”

“Lysistrata: "Calonice, it's more than I can bear,I am hot all over with blushes for our sex.Men say we're slippery rogues--"Calonice: "And aren't they right?”

“Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.”

“It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls”

“[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.”

“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”