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

Aristophanes

First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANES

Debt Funny Men Money Owing
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANES

Art Fee Money
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Force Truth
The old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Childhood Old Age One Liner
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Right True
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Hunger
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
An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANES

Actors Taste
Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES

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

Argument Art Success
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
ARISTOPHANES

Chance Drink Women
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Man Time
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
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
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
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANES

Gains Honesty Men
Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANES

Atheist Eye Mouth
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANES

Crabs Habit Walk
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANES

Goodness War
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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