To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
ARISTOPHANES
What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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A slave is but half a man.
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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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