You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANESYe Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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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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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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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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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.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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