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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

Aristophanes

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Break Thinking Try
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Education Honest Men
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Change Yourself
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Coarse Poet Taste
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
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ideas Phrases Power Size
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ethics Fairness Justice
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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money

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