A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANESTimes change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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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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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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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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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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