Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
ARISTOPHANESDo not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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An actor should refine public taste.
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By words the mind is winged.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Old age is second childhood.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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