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Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Circle
Circles
Straight
Century
Astronomer
Four
Cornered
Work
Astronomers
Make
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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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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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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