A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANESA demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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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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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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