Evil events from evil causes spring.
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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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An actor should refine public taste.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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