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Aristophanes

An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Man Time
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
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
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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Children Humanity Life Men
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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
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
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices

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