Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANESEvil events from evil causes spring.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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