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Old age is second childhood.
Aristophanes
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Aristophanes
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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[Y]ou possess all the attributes of a demagogue a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived she understands deceit too well herself.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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