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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!

Aristophanes

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Justice Long Ourselves People
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Friendship Wall War
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
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Knowledge Yourself
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
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
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Clever Mindset Wine
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday

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