Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANESWealth–the most excellent of all gods.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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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 old are in a second childhood.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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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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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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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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