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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.

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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES

People Promise Winning
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANES

Deep Philosophy Study
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men
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!
ARISTOPHANES

Chance Drink Women
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANES

Fire Strong Untamed Wild Women
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANES

House Men Wisdom Words
Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Result Spring
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANES

Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Food Home Myself Vegetables

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