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Aristophanes

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.
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Break Thinking Try
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
ARISTOPHANES

Idiot Law
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANES

Ideas Phrases Power Size
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
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
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.
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Egg Food Kissing
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Evil Fear Poor
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War

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