It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
ARISTOPHANESWeak 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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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Old age is second childhood.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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