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.
ARISTOPHANES
Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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