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- Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
- Hippocrates (460 BC - 377 BC), Regimen
- We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC), Peloponnesian War
- You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Knights, 424 B.C.
- 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. - Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps, 422 B.C.
- Let each man exercise the art he knows.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Wasps, 422 B.C.
- Under every stone lurks a politician.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Thesmophoriazusae, 410 B.C.
- Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,
At which the audience never fail to laugh? - Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Frogs, 405 B.C.
- High thoughts must have high language.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Frogs, 405 B.C.
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
- Aristophanes (450 BC - 388 BC), Plutus, 388 B.C.
- This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
- Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC), from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
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