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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

Aristophanes

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
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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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
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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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands

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