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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!

Aristophanes

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

Coarse Poet Taste
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Able Country Goodness Men
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
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
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
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Comedy Justice Lying
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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House Men Wisdom Words
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
ARISTOPHANES

Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
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!
ARISTOPHANES

Chance Drink Women
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
Today things are better than yesterday.
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Today Yesterday
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Honesty Insult Men Praise
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Atheist Eye Mouth
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves

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