Today things are better than yesterday.
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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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