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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

Aristophanes

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  When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

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  An actor should refine public taste.

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  There’s no art where there’s no fee.

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  The wise learn many things from their enemies.

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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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  Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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  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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  Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.

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  These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!

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  To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

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

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  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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  Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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  Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

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  Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

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