Aristophanes

"The gods help them that help themselves."

"We are all naturally slaves to what we love."

"Where is the justice in forbidding something that brings joy to none and harm to nobody?"

"Laughter is the only weapon that cannot be used against you."

"A man's own dignity is more to him than all the riches in the world."

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues."

"Whosoever plants dates will not harvest them, yet they plant them nonetheless."

"The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms."

"All wars are won or lost in the hearts of men."

"What is the use of a lengthy argument when a single word might do the job?"

"The man who has made up his mind that life is worth living is beaten at the start."

"In old age, beauty is not diminished but refined."

"When the time is ripe, the gods will act; before then, all our efforts are but pebbles in the wind."

"To speak boldly is not to speak recklessly, but to speak with full knowledge of the cost."

"The rich are not those with much money, but those who have learned to want little."

"A man is known by the company he keeps, and a state by the art it produces."

"Music has the power to calm the savage breast and elevate the noble mind."

"Those who wish to sing always find a song."

"The measure of a person is not how they treat their superiors, but how they treat those who can do nothing for them."

"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?"

"The bow which is too rigid will break; the reed which is too yielding will be trampled."

"When the seed is cracked, the plant emerges; when certainty cracks, truth emerges."

"A man should never despise what he has done in the past, for it has made him what he is."

"Time is the fire in which we burn, yet only fire tempers the strongest steel."

"The best is the enemy of the good, and we are often slaves to perfection."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"A clever man commits no errors; his errors commit him."

"The gods have made some of us poets, some sculptors, some soldiers. Each must find their calling."

"What is beauty but the reflection of truth in the mirror of time?"

"No man can be happy who does not first know himself."