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.
ARISTOPHANESDoes 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.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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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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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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