Evil events from evil causes spring.
ARISTOPHANESIgnorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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By words the mind is winged.
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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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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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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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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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It 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.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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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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