Old age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESComedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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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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A slave is but half a man.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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By words the mind is winged.
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