You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANESA slave is but half a man.
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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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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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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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