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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?

Aristophanes

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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
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
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
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
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
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size

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