Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
ARISTOPHANESWords give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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