An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANESI 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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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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