By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANESTo invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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An actor should refine public taste.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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