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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

Aristophanes

The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
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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Egg Food Kissing
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness Men
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words

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