Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANESThou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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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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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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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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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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An actor should refine public taste.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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