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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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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.
ARISTOPHANES

Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
ARISTOPHANES

Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
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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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine

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