Monologue

Unj Monologue from The Clouds

From The Clouds by Aristophanes

any · philosophical · 1:34 min

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And yet I was choking in my heart, and was longing to confound all these with contrary maxims. For I have been called among the deep thinkers the "worse cause" on this very account, that I first contrived how to speak against both law and justice; and this art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. But mark how I will confute the system of education on which he relies, who says, in the first place, that he will not permit you to be washed with warm water. And yet, on what principle do you blame the warm baths? (Just: Because it is most vile, and makes a man cowardly.) Stop! For immediately I seize and hold you by the waist without escape. Come, tell me, which of the sons of Jupiter do you deem to have been the bravest in soul, and to have undergone most labours? (Just: I consider no man superior to Hercules.) Where, pray, did you ever see cold Herculean baths? And yet, who was more valiant than he?

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30s · determination · identity · power · education · justice

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