A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANESA slave is but half a man.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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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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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Old age is second childhood.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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