Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
ARISTOPHANESAn 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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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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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High thoughts must have high language.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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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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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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