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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

Aristophanes

Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

Change Yourself
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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
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
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANES

Blind Guide
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
ARISTOPHANES

Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES

Busy Men Wine
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES

Atheist Eye Mouth
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Father Happiness Men
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Force Truth
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Life Wisdom Wise

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