High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANESEven if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Old age is second childhood.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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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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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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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 man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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