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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!

Aristophanes

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

Deep Philosophy Study
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Comedy Right True
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANES

Impossible Live Poet Right Woman
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Fee Money
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious Wine
Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANES

Mind Mouths Yourself
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
ARISTOPHANES

Children Humanity Life Men
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
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANES

Army Leadership Skill
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Change Time Today Vices
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Wall War
Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANES

Desire Love Names Philosophy Pursuit
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery

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