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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Result Spring
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
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Excellence God Money Wealth
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANES

Achievement Adventure Journey Travel
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 fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Father Happiness Men
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANES

Army Leadership Skill
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
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
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth

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