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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.

Aristophanes

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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Chance Drink Women
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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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Break Thinking Try
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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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Egg Food Kissing
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature
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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Friendship Wall War
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring

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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