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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

Aristophanes

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

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