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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

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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.
ARISTOPHANES

Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
ARISTOPHANES

Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANES

Deep Philosophy Study
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men

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