One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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Old age is second childhood.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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