Open your mind before your mouth.
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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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