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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Aristophanes

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
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Men Mindset Wings
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES

House Men Wisdom Words
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
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 love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

Life Long

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