By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANESThe gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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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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