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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.

Aristophanes

What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
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 beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
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
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
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
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study

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