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• 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, World, Crowds

  Aristophanes (2004). “Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.32, Sparklesoup LLC

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• You cannot make a crab walk straight.

  Aristophanes

  Habit, Crabs, Walks

  Aristophanes, Peter Meineck (1998). “Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds”, p.259, Hackett Publishing

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• 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

  Men, Grieving, Hands

  Aristophanes (1960). “Aristophanes with the English translation of Benjamin Bickley Rogers”

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• Today things are better than yesterday.

  Aristophanes

  Yesterday, Today

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies - Complete”, p.489, Simon and Schuster

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• An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.

  Aristophanes

  Law, Athens, Idiot

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• There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

  Aristophanes

  Women, Fire, Untamed

  Aristophanes (2006). “Complete Plays of Aristophanes”, p.367, Bantam Classics

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• One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

  Aristophanes

  Adversity, Grace, Trying

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Thesmophoriazusae”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Winning, People, Together

  Aristophanes (2016). “The Knights”, p.16, Aristophanes

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• Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.

  Aristophanes

  Soon Enough, Matter, Stout

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• Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.

  Aristophanes

  Ifs

  "Leaders and Leadership". Book by Lee Thayer (p. 139), September 22, 2010.

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• It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

  Aristophanes

  Leadership, Army, Skills

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

  Aristophanes

  Deceit, Get Money, Deceived

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Ecclesiazusae”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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

  Aristophanes

  Art, Triumph, Argument

  Aristophanes (2015). “The Clouds”, p.61, Aristophanes

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• The love of wine is a good man's failing.

  Aristophanes

  Wine, Men, Good Man

  Aristophanes (2004). “The Wasps (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.8, Sparklesoup LLC

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• 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

  Running, Courses, Prompts

  Aristophanes, Thomas Mitchell (1822). “The Comedies of Aristophanes: Preface. The clouds. The wasps. The discat turned gentleman”, p.150

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• Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

  Aristophanes

  Wine, Men, Ideas

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.

  Aristophanes

  Taste, Poet, Coarse

  Aristophanes (2015). “The wasps - The birds - The frogs - The Thesmophoriazusae - The Ecclesiazusae”, p.223, Aristophanes

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• What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!

  Aristophanes

  Life, Long, Long Life

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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

  Aristophanes

  Study

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• There's no art where there's no fee.

  Aristophanes

  Art, Fees

  Aristophanes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristophanes (Illustrated)”, p.594, Delphi Classics

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• To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

  Aristophanes

  Winning, People, Promise

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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

  Aristophanes

  Wine, Men, Busy

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• Old age is but a second childhood.

  Aristophanes

  Children, Childhood, Age

  Clouds (1417) (transl. Thomas Mitchell)

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• 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

  Women, Chance, Drink

  Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson (1998). “Aristophanes: Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria”, p.547, Harvard University Press

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• If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

  Aristophanes

  Cat, Men, Tails

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