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

Aristophanes

You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
ARISTOPHANES

Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
ARISTOPHANES

Egg Food Kissing
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Result Spring
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

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

Expression God Simplicity
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

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