When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANESIt 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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The old are in a second childhood.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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A slave is but half a man.
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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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By words the mind is winged.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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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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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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