Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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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Open your mind before your mouth.
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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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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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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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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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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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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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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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