A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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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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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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