The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESWeak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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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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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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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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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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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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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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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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