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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Darkness Dream Race
How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANES

Deep Philosophy Study
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANES

Care Salary Vote Yourself
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying

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