Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANESThere is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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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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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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