Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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Do not take a blind guide.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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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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Open your mind before your mouth.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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