Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANESTo plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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A slave is but half a man.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Old age is second childhood.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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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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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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 old are in a second childhood.
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