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!
ARISTOPHANESDo not take a blind guide.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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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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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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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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A slave is but half a man.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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