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Under every stone lurks a politician.

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Aristophanes
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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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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Old age is but a second childhood.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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A truce to idle phrases!
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
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Old age is second childhood.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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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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