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Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Great
Engender
Compelling
Phrases
Size
Thoughts
Equal
Power
Ideas

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No man is really honest none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Old age is but a second childhood.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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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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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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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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