Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
ARISTOPHANESPrayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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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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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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A slave is but half a man.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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