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High thoughts must have high language.

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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Father of Comedy
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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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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived she understands deceit too well herself.
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.
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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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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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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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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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The old are in a second childhood.
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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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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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