It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANESAn actor should refine public taste.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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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