Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANESTimes change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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Do not take a blind guide.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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