Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANESThe wise learn many things from their enemies.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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It 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.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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