An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANESDoes it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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A slave is but half a man.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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