Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
AristophanesComedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
AristophanesYou vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
AristophanesThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
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