To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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High thoughts must have high language.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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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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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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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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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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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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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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A slave is but half a man.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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By words the mind is winged.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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