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Old age is second childhood.

Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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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Honesty Insult Men Praise
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Food Home Myself Vegetables
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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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday

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