Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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A slave is but half a man.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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