Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANESOne must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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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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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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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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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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