How can I study from below, that which is above?
ARISTOPHANESTimes change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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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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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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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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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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