Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANESDo not take a blind guide.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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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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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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This 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.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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