Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
ARISTOPHANESFirst listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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