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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
ARISTOPHANES

Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
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
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
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

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