It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
ARISTOPHANESI would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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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Open your mind before your mouth.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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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.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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