The old are in a second childhood.
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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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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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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