Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
ARISTOPHANESA slave is but half a man.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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