The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESHigh thoughts must have high language.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Do not take a blind guide.
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Old age is second childhood.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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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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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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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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High thoughts must have high language.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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