There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANESThe gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Old age is second childhood.
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A slave is but half a man.
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