Comedy is allied to justice.
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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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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By words the mind is winged.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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