When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANESThe old are in a second childhood.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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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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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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