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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Men Mindset Wings
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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Fee Money
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Wall War
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Himself Life Strength
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANES

Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES

Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men

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