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“Open your mind before your mouth”
― Aristophanes

“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
― Aristophanes

“But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.”
― Hesiod, Works and Days and Theogony

“That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.”
― Hesiod

“A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it”
― Hesiod, Works and Days

“Learn what you are and be such.”
― Pindar

“Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.”
― Pindar, Pindar

“O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life,
but exhaust the limits of the possible.”
― Pindar