Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANESChildren have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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