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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

Aristophanes

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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Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
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
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Busy Men Wine
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge 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
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness 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
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
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
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening

The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

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