The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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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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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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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 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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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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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A slave is but half a man.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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