Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANESIt 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.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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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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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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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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An actor should refine public taste.
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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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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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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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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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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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