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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
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Father of Comedy
Aging
Childhood
Second

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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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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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You will never make the crab walk straight.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Open your mind before your mouth
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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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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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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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Do not take a blind guide.
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