There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANESNo man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Ye 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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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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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 saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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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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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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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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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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