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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
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Father of Comedy
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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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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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The old are in a second childhood.
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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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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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You will never make the crab walk straight.
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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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