Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANESMix 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.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Old age is second childhood.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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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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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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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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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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