Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious.
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Just Cause: You are debauched and shameless.
Unjust Cause: You have spoken roses of me.
Just Cause: And a dirty lickspittle.
Unjust Cause: You crown me with lilies.
Just Cause: And a parricide.
Unjust Cause: You don't know that you are sprinkling me with gold.
Just Cause: Certainly not so formerly, but with lead.
Unjust Cause: But now this is an ornament to me.
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Strepsiades: Vortex reigns, having expelled Zeus.
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Just Cause: [Learn] not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy.
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Strepsiades: But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god?
Socrates: What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus.
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Chorus [of Birds]: Man is naturally deceitful ever, in every way!
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