A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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