A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANESThe old are in a second childhood.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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By words the mind is winged.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Old age is second childhood.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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