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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?

Aristophanes

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True

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