How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANESYou can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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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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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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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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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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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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