It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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.
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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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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 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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Open your mind before your mouth.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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