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

Aristophanes

You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
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
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Excellence God Money Wealth
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake
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
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
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Chance Drink Women
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

Life Long
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Believe Evil Hands
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Comedy Right True
High thoughts must have high language.
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Language Thinking
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Born Feminism Men Myself Nation Voice

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