Aristophanes

"A woman's wit is as sharp as any man's blade, though society often sharpens it against herself."

"The pursuit of money at the expense of virtue creates a man wealthy in possessions but bankrupt in spirit."

"All great change begins with the courage to speak what others are too afraid to say."

"The man who has conquered his own appetites has won the greatest victory."

"In the face of injustice, silence is a form of complicity."

"The greatest gift one man can give another is an honest word spoken in love."

"A nation of philosophers would require no laws, for each would govern himself by reason."

"The appetite grows with eating; the more a man has, the more he desires."

"True freedom is not the absence of constraints but the ability to choose one's own constraints."

"The man who laughs at the absurdities of life has discovered the key to surviving them."

"In the theater of life, every man is both actor and audience, judge and judged."

"A woman's intuition is often the accumulated wisdom of countless generations expressed through feeling rather than reason."

"The state that fears its artists and philosophers is a state that fears truth itself."

"Love is the only force that makes life worth the burden of living it."

"A man's legacy is not what he accumulates but what he inspires in others."

"The greatest folly is to believe one's own wisdom and doubt the wisdom of ages past."

"In every heart there burns a desire to leave the world better than one found it."

"The man who cannot laugh at himself has yet to discover the depths of his own absurdity."

"A single act of kindness ripples outward in ways the giver can never fully perceive."

"The pursuit of justice requires that we first understand that we ourselves are capable of profound injustice."

"In the marketplace of ideas, the best ideas do not always triumph; often the loudest voices prevail."

"The man who works only for wages has surrendered his humanity to necessity."

"Imagination is the faculty that allows man to transcend his current condition and envision a better future."

"A society that forgets to laugh has forgotten how to live."

"The greatest strength is not in the body but in the resolve of the spirit."

"In the assembly of the wise, even the fool has something to learn if he will listen."

"A man's true measure is revealed not in prosperity but in how he bears adversity."

"The fear that keeps a man from acting is often greater than the danger he fears."

"All art is a form of protest against the accepted way of seeing the world."

"A woman who thinks for herself is more dangerous to tyranny than an army of men."