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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

You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES

Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES

House Men Wisdom Words
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
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
Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
ARISTOPHANES

Darkness Dream Race
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

Change Yourself
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
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
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Fear Poor
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste

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.

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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.

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