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

Aristophanes

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
ARISTOPHANES

Deceit Deceived Money
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
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
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
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
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

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

Enemy Force Truth

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