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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

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
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
ARISTOPHANES

Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANES

Men Mindset Wings
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Fee Money
Under every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide Politics Witty
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Himself Life Strength
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
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANES

Leadership Life People Wisdom Wise
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANES

Blind Guide
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice

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