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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
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
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
ARISTOPHANES

Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Excellence God Money Wealth

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