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Old age is but a second childhood.

Aristophanes

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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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[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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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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