The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANESThe truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Old age is second childhood.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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