The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANESThe wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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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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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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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.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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