It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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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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