Do not take a blind guide.
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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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 slave is but half a man.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Old age is second childhood.
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