You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESDo 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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Do not take a blind guide.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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