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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
ARISTOPHANES, The Thesmophoriazusae
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES, The Wasps
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES, The Thesmophoriazusae
The old are in a second childhood.
High thoughts must have high language.
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.
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.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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