By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANESEven if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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