Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANESThe gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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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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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.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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