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.
ARISTOPHANESThere’s no art where there’s no fee.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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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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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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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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High thoughts must have high language.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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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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