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

Aristophanes

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

Friendship Listening
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
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
ARISTOPHANES

Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
ARISTOPHANES

Chance Drink Women
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
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANES

Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES

Busy Men Wine
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
ARISTOPHANES

Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
ARISTOPHANES

Children Humanity Life Men
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES

House Men Wisdom Words
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste

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