It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANESQuickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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A slave is but half a man.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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