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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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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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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I'm not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I'm taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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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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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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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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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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