Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANESChildren have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
ARISTOPHANESOpen your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANESEven if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANESYou cannot make a crab walk straight.
ARISTOPHANESDo not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
ARISTOPHANESWise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANESIt should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
ARISTOPHANESA slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANESA man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
ARISTOPHANESUnder every stone lurks a politician.
ARISTOPHANESOpen your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
ARISTOPHANESThe old are in a second childhood.
ARISTOPHANESWhy, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANESIt 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.
ARISTOPHANESQuickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANESWealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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