It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANESThe love of wine is a good man’s failing.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Old age is second childhood.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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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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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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A slave is but half a man.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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