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Aristophanes

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Age Father Happiness 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
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
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

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