When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANESLook at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Old age is second childhood.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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