Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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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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The old are in a second childhood.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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