If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
ARISTOPHANESOld age is second childhood.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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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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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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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