There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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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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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Look 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.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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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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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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