Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANESChildren have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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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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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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