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

Aristophanes

When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANES

Busy Men Wine
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Change Time Today Vices
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
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
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
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
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
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Art Success
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANES

Army Leadership Skill
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES

People Together Winning
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Life Wisdom Wise

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