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

Aristophanes

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
ARISTOPHANES

Best Death Friendship Lost Road Travel
How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANES

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

Argument Art Success
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES

Atheist Eye Mouth
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
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
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANES

Ideas Phrases Power Size
Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide Politics Witty
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
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.
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People Together Winning
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
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Animal Clouds Nature

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

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