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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

Aristophanes

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
ARISTOPHANES

Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
ARISTOPHANES

Egg Food Kissing
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Himself Life Strength
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANES

Deep Philosophy Study
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES

Busy Men Wine
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Fee Money
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

Change Yourself
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself

Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.

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