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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
ARISTOPHANES

Darkness Dream Race
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
ARISTOPHANES

Deceit Deceived Money
Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
ARISTOPHANES

Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Teaching Walk Yourself
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
ARISTOPHANES

Believe Evil Hands
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANES

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

Argument Art Success
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANES

Blind Guide
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
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Himself Life Strength
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
ARISTOPHANES

Egg Food Kissing

Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!

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