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Aristophanes

Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
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
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
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
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
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
ARISTOPHANES

Honesty Insult Men Praise
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANES

Ideas Phrases Power Size
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
ARISTOPHANES

Idiot Law
Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide Politics Witty
Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANES

Blind Guide
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANES

Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES

People Promise Winning

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