You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESIt is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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