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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

Aristophanes

You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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People Together Winning
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Believe Evil Hands
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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.
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Break Thinking Try
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Children Man Time
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
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
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
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
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
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
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
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

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