A fox is subtlety itself.
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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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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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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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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