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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.

Aristophanes

You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Character Politician Voice
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
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
By words the mind is winged.
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Mindset Wings Word
A slave is but half a man.
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Half Man Slavery
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Darkness Dream Race
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Art Himself Life Strength
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
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
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

Change Yourself
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Gold Honesty Men
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Gains Honesty Men
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Children Humanity Life Men

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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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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