Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANESThe truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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