You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANESWeak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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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.
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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