When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANESAh! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Old age is second childhood.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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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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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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