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

Aristophanes

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

Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
ARISTOPHANES

Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
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
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
ARISTOPHANES

Honesty Insult Men Praise
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
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
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES

House Men Wisdom Words
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Art Success
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Children Learning Poet
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger

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

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