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The old are in a second childhood.

Aristophanes Topic: Age

By words the mind is winged.

Aristophanes Topic: Books and Reading

They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.

Aristophanes Topic: Character

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

Aristophanes Topic: Clouds

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, Advanced a stage or two upon that road Which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Aristophanes Topic: Death

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Aristophanes Topic: Death Immortality

Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered.

Aristophanes Topic: Geometry

Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

Aristophanes Topic: Hunger

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes Topic: Inspirational

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Aristophanes Topic: Inspirational

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 Topic: Man

The wise learn many things from their foes.

Aristophanes Topic: Psychological Subjects

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Aristophanes Topic: Vice

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