Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANESPoverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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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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Weak 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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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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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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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