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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.

Aristophanes

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
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
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
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
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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Care Salary Vote Yourself
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself

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