Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANESHigh thoughts must have high language.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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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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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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