Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANESWords give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Old age is second childhood.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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