Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANESA man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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By words the mind is winged.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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