High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANESYou 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.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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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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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Old age is second childhood.
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