These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANESThese impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANESWealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANESTo win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
ARISTOPHANESPrayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
ARISTOPHANESFull of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANESIt often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANESTis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
ARISTOPHANESA man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANESThe gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANESWoman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
ARISTOPHANESIt is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANESOld age is second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESTimes change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
ARISTOPHANESA slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANESIt is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
ARISTOPHANESQuickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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