How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANESThe love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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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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