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

Aristophanes

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANES

Care Salary Vote Yourself
Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide Politics Witty
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Change Time Today Vices
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Idiot Law
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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!
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Chance Drink Women
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
ARISTOPHANES

Justice Long Ourselves People
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES

Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Goodness War
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Himself Life Strength

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

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