If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Old age is second childhood.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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