Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

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

A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.