Aristophanes

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
Advanced a stage or two upon that road
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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.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

By words the mind is winged.

By words the mind is winged.

Ye children of man! whose life is a span
Protracted with sorrow from day to day,
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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.