If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
ARISTOPHANESIf a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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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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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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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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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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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