Dicaepolis: Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
(tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278)
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Dicaeopolis: Well, how are things at Megara?
Megarian: We are crying with hunger at our firesides.
Dicaeopolis: The fireside is jolly enough with a piper. But what else is doing at Megara, eh?
Megarian: What else? When I left for the market, the authorities were taking steps to let us die in the quickest manner.
Dicaeopolis: That is the best way to get you out of all your troubles.
Megarian: True.
Dicaeopolis: What other news of Megara? What is wheat selling at?
Megarian: With us it is valued as highly as the very gods in heaven!
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Strepsiades: ‘Tis the Whirlwind, that has driven out Zeus and is King now.
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Just Discourse: 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.
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