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.
ARISTOPHANESAh! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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By words the mind is winged.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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