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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

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Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Forever
Cured
Stupidity
Ignorance

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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Old age is but a second childhood.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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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