Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
ARISTOPHANESAn ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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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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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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A slave is but half a man.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury 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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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 fox is subtlety itself.
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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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