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Open your mind before your mouth.

Aristophanes

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES

Atheist Eye Mouth
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself

Open your mind before your mouth.

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