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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Old age is but a second childhood.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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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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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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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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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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Open your mind before your mouth
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Do not take a blind guide.
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