Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESTo plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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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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Open your mind before your mouth.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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