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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

One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
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
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANES

Climbing Lie Necessary Success
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
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

Life Long
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Man Time
Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Hide Politics Witty
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Crabs Habit Walk
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine

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