black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Aristophanes

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
ARISTOPHANES

Education Honest Men
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
ARISTOPHANES

Hide One Liner Theft Thieves
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
ARISTOPHANES

Expression God Simplicity
A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANES

Half Man Slavery
By words the mind is winged.
ARISTOPHANES

Mindset Wings Word
Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
ARISTOPHANES

Change Yourself
Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
ARISTOPHANES

Justice Long Ourselves People
Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
ARISTOPHANES

Children Man Time
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANES

Clever Mindset Wine
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
ARISTOPHANES

Army Leadership Skill
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
ARISTOPHANES

Enemy Inspirational Learning Man Wisdom
You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
ARISTOPHANES

Knowledge Yourself
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
ARISTOPHANES

Coarse Poet Taste
First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
ARISTOPHANES

Friendship Listening
Comedy is allied to justice.
ARISTOPHANES

Comedy Justice Lying
High thoughts must have high language.
ARISTOPHANES

Language Thinking

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Aristophanes Quotes