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

Aristophanes

I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
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
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES

Atheist Eye Mouth
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
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
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
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
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

Life Long
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES

People Promise Winning

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