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.
AristophanesShall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?
AristophanesThe children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
AristophanesYour 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.
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