Old age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESMen 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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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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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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The old are in a second childhood.
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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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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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