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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
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
ARISTOPHANES

Darkness Dream Race
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Break Thinking Try
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Force Truth
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES

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

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

Knowledge Yourself
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

Life Long
Today things are better than yesterday.
ARISTOPHANES

Today Yesterday
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
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
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

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