Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
ARISTOPHANESYour lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
ARISTOPHANESHow can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANESTo invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
ARISTOPHANESOpen your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANESNo man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
ARISTOPHANESAn actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANESYou cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESA fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANESThis 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.
ARISTOPHANESHunger knows no friend but its feeder.
ARISTOPHANESIt is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
ARISTOPHANESUnder every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANESThe love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANESMix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANESYou vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
ARISTOPHANESHave you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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