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Aristophanes

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.
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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
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
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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People Promise Winning
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
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