"Lippmann, Walter . A Preface to Morals. Transaction Publishers (reprint."

“Old age is second childhood.”

“Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.”

“Just Cause: not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy.”

“Strepsiades: Vortex reigns, having expelled Zeus.”

“Demosthenes: A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.”

“Rogers, Benjamin B. . The Wasps of Aristophanes. Cambridge University press.”