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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

Aristophanes

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  Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!

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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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  Today things are better than yesterday.

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  Old age is second childhood.

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  To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

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  Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.

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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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  There’s no art where there’s no fee.

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  Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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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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  Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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  There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

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  One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

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  The old are in a second childhood.

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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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  Open your mind before your mouth.

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