First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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 often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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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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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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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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Do not take a blind guide.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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