The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESDoes 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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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