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.
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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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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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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