Do not take a blind guide.
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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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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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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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