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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!

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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
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
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANES

Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
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
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES

Busy Men Wine
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
ARISTOPHANES

Honesty Insult Men Praise
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES

Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
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
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Deceit Deceived Money
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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

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

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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!

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