If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANESIf a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANESAn ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
ARISTOPHANESEvil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANESNo man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANESOpen your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANESThou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANESThe love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANESTis 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.
ARISTOPHANESYe 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!
ARISTOPHANESA slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANESChildren have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANESThe wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESPrayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESBy words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANESWhy, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANESEvil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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