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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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Father of Comedy
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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A truce to idle phrases!
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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You will never make the crab walk straight.
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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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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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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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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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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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[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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High thoughts must have high language.
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