Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANESA slave is but half a man.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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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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An actor should refine public taste.
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