High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANESOne must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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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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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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