The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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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.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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