Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANESFull of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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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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A slave is but half a man.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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