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

Aristophanes

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
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Do not take a blind guide.
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Blind Guide
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men
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
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
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

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

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