Comedy is allied to justice.
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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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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