When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANESMen of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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 can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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A slave is but half a man.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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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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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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By words the mind is winged.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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