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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Childhood
Second
Aging

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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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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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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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