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.
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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Old age is second childhood.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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A slave is but half a man.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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