There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANESBy words the mind is winged.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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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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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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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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