To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
ARISTOPHANESOpen your mind before your mouth.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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By words the mind is winged.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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You 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.
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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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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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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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