Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANESPoverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Do 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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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By words the mind is winged.
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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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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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