Let each man exercise the art he knows.
ARISTOPHANESA man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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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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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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