Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANESComedy is allied to justice.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Old age is second childhood.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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