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Aristophanes

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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
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
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 fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun

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