There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANESWeak 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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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A slave is but half a man.
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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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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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