What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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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 fox is subtlety itself.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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