Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESThis 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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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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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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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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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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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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