Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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By words the mind is winged.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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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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