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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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Father of Comedy
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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A truce to idle phrases!
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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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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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You will never make the crab walk straight.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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