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

Food Home Myself Vegetables
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
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES

Atheist Eye Mouth
Today things are better than yesterday.
ARISTOPHANES

Today Yesterday
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Change Time Today Vices
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Clouds Nature
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Art Success
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Man Time
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES

Alcohol Clever Friendship Rich Successful Wine
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
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Learning Poet

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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