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You can't have anything else to say: you've poured out every drop of what you know.

Aristophanes

Knows

Aristophanes, Jeffrey Henderson (1998). “Aristophanes: Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria”, p.521, Harvard University Press

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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

Dream, Race, Darkness

Aristophanes (2012). “The Birds”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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A fox is subtlety itself.

Aristophanes

Foxes, Subtlety

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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Aristophanes

Father, Men, Age

Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies - Complete”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.

Aristophanes

Ideas, Phrases, Size

"Frogs". Comedy by Aristophanes, 405 BC.

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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, Men, Humanity

Aristophanes, John Hookham Frere (1839). “The Birds: Intended to Convey Some Notion of Its Effect as an Acted Play, and to Illustrate Certain Points of Dramatic Humour and Character Discoverable in the Original”, p.38

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Do not take a blind guide.

Aristophanes

Blind, Guides

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

Aristophanes

Total War

Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies - Complete”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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The old are in a second childhood.

Aristophanes

Childhood, Aging

Aristophanes, Peter Meineck (1998). “Aristophanes 1: Clouds, Wasps, Birds”, p.416, Hackett Publishing

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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.

Aristophanes

Travel, Adventure, Journey

Aristophanes (2004). “The Frogs (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.21, Sparklesoup LLC

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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

Aristophanes

Love, Names, Desire

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Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.

Aristophanes

Essence, Data, Air

Aristophanes (1984). “Four Plays”, Plume

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You will never make the crab walk straight.

Aristophanes

Crabs, Walks

Aristophanes (2012). “Peace”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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A truce to idle phrases!

Aristophanes

Phrases, Idle, Truce

Aristophanes (2004). “Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.22, Sparklesoup LLC

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An actor should refine public taste.

Aristophanes

Actors, Taste, Should

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Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.

Aristophanes

Sex, Husband, Children

Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristophanes

Friendship, Wall, War

"Birds". Book by Aristophanes, 414 BCE.

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Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .

Aristophanes

Work, Circles, Four

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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, Hands, Wicked

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

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A slave is but half a man.

Aristophanes

Men, Half, Slavery

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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.

Aristophanes

Food, Home, Vegetables

Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, p.44, University of Michigan Press

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Chorus of women: [...] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

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Wind, Way, Gallant

"Lysistrata". Book by Aristophanes, 410 BCE.

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[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

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War, Winning, Men

"Lysistrata". Book by Aristophanes, 411 BCE.

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Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?

Aristophanes

Laughter, Laughing, Cracks

Aristophanes (2008). “The Birds and Other Plays: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.228, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

Aristophanes

Clouds, Sky And Clouds, Centaurs

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Born: 444 BC
Died: 385 BC
Occupation: Playwright
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