I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
ARISTOPHANESThe old are in a second childhood.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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By words the mind is winged.
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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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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Ye 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!
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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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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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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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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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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