The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESYe 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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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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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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