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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

Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
ARISTOPHANES

Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANES

Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
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

People Together Winning
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Himself Life Strength
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide Politics Witty
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES

People Promise Winning
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANES

Care Salary Vote Yourself
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner

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.

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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.

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