First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANESYouth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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A slave is but half a man.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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