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.
ARISTOPHANESIt is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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