Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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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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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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