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Aristophanes

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Egg Food Kissing
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time

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