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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

Aristophanes

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  It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.

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  High thoughts must have high language.

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  An actor should refine public taste.

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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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  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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  It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

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  How can I study from below, that which is above?

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  First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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  Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

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  Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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  Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

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  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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  You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.

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  Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

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  A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.

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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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