Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESYou vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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By words the mind is winged.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Tis 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.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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