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Today things are better than yesterday.

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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
Playwright
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Father of Comedy
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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A truce to idle phrases!
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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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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