Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANESOpen your mind before your mouth.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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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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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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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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