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.
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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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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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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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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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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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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