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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

Aristophanes

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
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
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

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