The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANESLook 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.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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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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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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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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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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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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