To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANES
The old are in a second childhood.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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