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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Aristophanes

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
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
Old age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES

Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Fee Money
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Friendship Listening
How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANES

Deep Philosophy Study
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
ARISTOPHANES

Honesty Insult Men Praise
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES

Busy Men Wine
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
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES

Achievement Adventure Journey Travel

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