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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?

Aristophanes

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

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Force Truth
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
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
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Food Home Myself Vegetables
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Men Mindset Wings
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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.
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Animal Foxes
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

Life Long
Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Result Spring

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