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Aristophanes

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
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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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
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

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