No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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