Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANESOne must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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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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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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A slave is but half a man.
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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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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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By words the mind is winged.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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