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High thoughts must have high language.

Aristophanes

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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Father of Comedy
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Open your mind before your mouth
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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[Y]ou 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.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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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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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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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!
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You will never make the crab walk straight.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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