Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANESThis 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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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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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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 fox is subtlety itself.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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