Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANESFirst listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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An actor should refine public taste.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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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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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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A slave is but half a man.
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