An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
ARISTOPHANESAn ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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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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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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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A slave is but half a man.
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