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Aristophanes
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High thoughts must have high language.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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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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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.
Aristophanes
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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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.
Aristophanes
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
Aristophanes
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Open your mind before your mouth
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
Aristophanes
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
Aristophanes
Do not take a blind guide.
Aristophanes
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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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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