Today things are better than yesterday.
ARISTOPHANESIf a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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A slave is but half a man.
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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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