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Aristophanes
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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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 wise learn many things from their enemies.
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A truce to idle phrases!
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Old age is but a second childhood.
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Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
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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.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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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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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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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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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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