Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANESA man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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By words the mind is winged.
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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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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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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 may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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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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Do not take a blind guide.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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