The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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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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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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