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Comedy is allied to justice.

Aristophanes

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
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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.
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Believe Evil Hands
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
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
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength

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