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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

Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
ARISTOPHANES

Children Humanity Life Men
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
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
Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANES

Blind Guide
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Idiot Law
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Excellence God Money Wealth
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
The old are in a second childhood.
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Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious Wine

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