An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANESThou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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