Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANESFull of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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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 vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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