The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
ARISTOPHANESEvil events from evil causes spring.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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By words the mind is winged.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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