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Aristophanes

Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Life Long
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
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Argument Art Success
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
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
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself

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