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!
ARISTOPHANESYouth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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