No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANESA man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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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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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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