Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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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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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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A slave is but half a man.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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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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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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