Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
ARISTOPHANESWhat unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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 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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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