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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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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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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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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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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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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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You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Old age is second childhood.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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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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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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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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A truce to idle phrases!
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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