Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESMen 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.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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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.
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