Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANES
An actor should refine public taste.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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