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

Argument Atheist Believe God Religion
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Friendship Listening
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Courses Fortune God Running Wake
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
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Enemy Life Wisdom Wise
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Enemy Force Truth
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANES

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

Busy Men Wine
Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANES

Excellence God Money Wealth
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Children Learning Poet
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
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANES

Age Education Forever Ignorance Stupidity Youth
How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Deep Philosophy Study
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
ARISTOPHANES

Blessing Death Honesty Mad Misery World
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
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANES

Pointless Prayer Religious 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
A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANES

Able Country Goodness Men
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Army Leadership Skill
Open your mind before your mouth.
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Mind Mouths Yourself
There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Art Fee Money
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANES

Food Home Myself Vegetables
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.
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Break Thinking Try
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
An actor should refine public taste.
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Actors Taste

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