Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANESHow can I study from below, that which is above?
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Old age is second childhood.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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