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Aristophanes
Age: 0
Comedy Writer
Playwright
Poet
Father of Comedy
Ideas
Great
Engender
Compelling
Phrases
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Thoughts
Equal
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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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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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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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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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[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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Open your mind before your mouth
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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