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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

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
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Force Truth
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
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing
Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES

Clever Mindset Wine
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
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
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Atheist Believe God Religion

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