If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANESThe truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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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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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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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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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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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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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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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A slave is but half a man.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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