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A truce to idle phrases!
A fox is subtlety itself.
A slave is but half a man.
Do not take a blind guide.
By words the mind is winged.
Old age is second childhood.
Comedy is allied to justice.
Open your mind before your mouth
The old are in a second childhood.
Old age is but a second childhood.
There's no art where there's no fee.
Evil events from evil causes spring.
An actor should refine public taste.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
High thoughts must have high language.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.
Today things are better than yesterday.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
You will never make the crab walk straight.
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
How can I study from below, that which is above?
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.