The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESDo 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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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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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!
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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By words the mind is winged.
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