Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANESUnder every stone lurks a politician.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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