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

Aristophanes

A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery
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
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide Politics Witty
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANES

Ideas Phrases Power Size
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
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
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
ARISTOPHANES

Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES

House Men Wisdom Words

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