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.
ARISTOPHANESWoman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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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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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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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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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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