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Does 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.

Aristophanes

There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
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
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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Age Father Happiness Men
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
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
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
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success

Does 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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