Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANESIt often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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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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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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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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