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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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Father of Comedy
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Open your mind before your mouth
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You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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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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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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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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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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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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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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Old age is but a second childhood.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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