You cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESThe truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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