What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
ARISTOPHANESTimes change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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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.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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