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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
A fox is subtlety itself.
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Animal Foxes
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Care Salary Vote Yourself
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
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
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Busy Men Wine
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
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
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
ARISTOPHANES

Idiot Law
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Age Change Time Today Vices

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