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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?

Aristophanes

Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
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
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Art Success
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning

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