It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANESA man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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The old are in a second childhood.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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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A slave is but half a man.
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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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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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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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