When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANESA fox is subtlety itself.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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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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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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