By words the mind is winged.
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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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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