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Comedy is allied to justice.
Aristophanes
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Aristophanes
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Comedy Writer
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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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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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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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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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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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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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 truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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