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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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