Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANESWords give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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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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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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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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