The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESYe Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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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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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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