Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANESWhen 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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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By words the mind is winged.
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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