You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESChildren have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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A slave is but half a man.
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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An actor should refine public taste.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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