Aristophanes

"Work is the antidote to despair."

"Dreams without action remain mere fantasies."

"Humor heals what sadness breaks."

"Nature is the source of all healing."

"Music expresses what cannot be put into words."

"Faith is the courage to believe in what you cannot see."

"A true leader serves others before themselves."

"Knowledge without application is merely information."

"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."

"A man may love beast as a companion, but something has gone very wrong if beast becomes the purpose of a man's life."

"Under the rule of a violent democracy, I have seen nothing but the violent destruction of all that is noble."

"Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, but stupidity remains a lifelong condition."

"The secret of success is to have a plan, and the wisdom to abandon it when circumstances demand."

"In the assembly of the foolish, the wise man holds his tongue."

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have."

"The greatest wealth is health of mind and body."

"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious about human failings."

"War is a thing that happens to us, but peace is something we must actively create."

"The man who is afraid to ask a foolish question is the man who remains a fool forever."

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime among men."

"When men drink, they speak what is in their hearts and minds."

"The masses have never thirsted after truth; they turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste."

"A man's true character emerges when no one is watching and there is nothing to gain."

"In matters of love and wine, there is no point in being reasonable."

"The poets have given us the gods; the philosophers take them away and give us back only the ideas of the gods."

"An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."

"Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop."

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm to life."

"There is no greater wisdom than a man knowing the limits of his own knowledge."

"The highest form of tyranny is when the masses tyrannize the minority through democratic processes."