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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANES

Care Salary Vote Yourself
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom

The old are in a second childhood.

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