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Aristophanes

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
Old age is second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

Change Yourself
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
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself

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