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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
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Father of Comedy
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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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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Old age is second childhood.
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Do not take a blind guide.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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