Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANESThere’s no art where there’s no fee.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Does 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.
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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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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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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.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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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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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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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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