Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANESThis is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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A slave is but half a man.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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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The old are in a second childhood.
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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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 can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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