Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANESIt is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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A slave is but half a man.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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By words the mind is winged.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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