Evil events from evil causes spring.
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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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