It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANESWeak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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A slave is but half a man.
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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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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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