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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

Aristophanes

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
ARISTOPHANES

Believe Evil Hands
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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Honesty Insult Men Praise
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
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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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit

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