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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

Aristophanes

High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Result Spring
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery
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

Character Government Language Nature Need Voice
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
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
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
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
Today things are better than yesterday.
ARISTOPHANES

Today Yesterday
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

Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.

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