Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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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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An actor should refine public taste.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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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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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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