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Old age is but a second childhood.

Aristophanes

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Aristophanes
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests hence the state limps along.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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Open your mind before your mouth
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High thoughts must have high language.
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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
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