It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANESThis 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.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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A slave is but half a man.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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