There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANESThe wise learn many things from their enemies.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Mix 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.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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This 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.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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