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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
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Himself Life Strength
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANES

Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES

People Promise Winning
Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANES

Blind Guide
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
ARISTOPHANES

Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
ARISTOPHANES

Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
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
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES

Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

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