Greek comic dramatist (450 B.C. - 388 B.C.)
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span,
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous,
Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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The Birds
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever!
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The Knights
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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The Knights
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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Plutus
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Ecclesiazusae