It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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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.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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