To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANESOpen your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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An actor should refine public taste.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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