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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.

Aristophanes

You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
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
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Forever Ignorance One Liner Stupidity
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

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

Climbing Lie Necessary Success
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Himself Life Strength
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
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
Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES

People Together Winning
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES

Gold Honesty Men
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
ARISTOPHANES

Fight Grief Hands Himself Men Shine Sun
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
ARISTOPHANES

Idiot Law

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