There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANESUnder every stone lurks a politician.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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By words the mind is winged.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Old age is second childhood.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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