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Aristophanes

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
ARISTOPHANES

Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES

Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Result Spring
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
ARISTOPHANES

Justice Long Ourselves People
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Believe Evil Hands
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANES

Army Leadership Skill
Today things are better than yesterday.
ARISTOPHANES

Today Yesterday
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES

Atheist Eye Mouth
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise

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