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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

Aristophanes

Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Art Success
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
ARISTOPHANES

Break Thinking Try
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Education Honest Men
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANES

Care Salary Vote Yourself
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Man Time
How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANES

Deep Philosophy Study
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Friendship Hunger

I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.

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