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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
AristophanesAristophanes Do not take a blind guide.
AristophanesAristophanes Open your mind before your mouth.
AristophanesAristophanes You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
AristophanesAristophanes A slave is but half a man.
AristophanesAristophanes What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
AristophanesAristophanes An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
AristophanesAristophanes Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
AristophanesAristophanes High thoughts must have high language.
AristophanesAristophanes Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
AristophanesAristophanes The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
AristophanesAristophanes Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
AristophanesAristophanes Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
AristophanesAristophanes 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.
AristophanesAristophanes Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
AristophanesAristophanes Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
AristophanesAristophanes
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