Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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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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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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