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Aristophanes

How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
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
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
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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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Believe Evil Hands
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men

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