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Old age is second childhood.

Aristophanes

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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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
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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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine

Old age is second childhood.

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