black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Aristophanes

Today things are better than yesterday.
ARISTOPHANES

Today Yesterday
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery
A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANES

Animal Foxes
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.
ARISTOPHANES

Darkness Dream Race
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

Change Yourself
Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Result Spring
Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Wall War
Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
ARISTOPHANES

Ethics Fairness Justice
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANES

Evil Spring Suffering Yourself
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
ARISTOPHANES

Break Thinking Try
The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANES

Failure Ideas Love Men Wine
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
ARISTOPHANES

Adversity Fortune Grace Trying
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Force Truth
To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANES

People Promise Winning

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aristophanes Quotes