A fox is subtlety itself.
ARISTOPHANESTimes change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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An actor should refine public taste.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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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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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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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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