Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
ARISTOPHANESThere is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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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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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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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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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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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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