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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

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

Atheist Eye Mouth
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
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
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Man Time
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
ARISTOPHANES

Deceit Deceived Money
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
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
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.
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Age Father Happiness Men
Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Evil Result Spring
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
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.
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Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
ARISTOPHANES

Chance Drink Women
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste

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