Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANESIgnorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Men 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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A slave is but half a man.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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