These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
ARISTOPHANESThe wise learn many things from their enemies.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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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.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Tis 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.
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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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