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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.

Aristophanes

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Excellence God Money Wealth
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
ARISTOPHANES

Darkness Dream Race
Old age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Father Happiness Men
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Art Success
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
ARISTOPHANES

Break Thinking Try

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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