Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANESEvil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
ARISTOPHANESTimes change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANESUnder every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANESOld age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESDoes 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.
ARISTOPHANESPrayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESWoman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
ARISTOPHANESThese impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANESYou vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANESComedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANESIf you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
ARISTOPHANESWealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANESIt 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.
ARISTOPHANESHave you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANESThere is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANESThe wise learn many things from their enemies.
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