Old age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESYou 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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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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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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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