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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANES

Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES

House Men Wisdom Words
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Argument Art Success
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
ARISTOPHANES

Believe Evil Hands
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
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 saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying

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