Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
ARISTOPHANESOpen your mind before your mouth.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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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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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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By words the mind is winged.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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