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

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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Expression God Simplicity
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Wall War
Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANES

Blind Guide
How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANES

Deep Philosophy Study
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
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Excellence God Money Wealth
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Change Time Today Vices
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
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
ARISTOPHANES

Character Politician Voice
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice

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