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.
ARISTOPHANESIt is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Old age is second childhood.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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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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By words the mind is winged.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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