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Classical antiquity13 quotes
There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man. — Sophocles · 441 BCThe old are in a second childhood. — Aristophanes · 423 BCThese impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them! — Aristophanes · 411 BCMy tongue swore, but my mind's unsworn. — Euripides · 428 BCThe happiest life consists in ignorance. — Sophocles · 442 BCJustice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. — Aeschylus · 458 BCAll 13 quotes →