Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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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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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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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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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Old age is second childhood.
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