I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Weak 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.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Men 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.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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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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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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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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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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