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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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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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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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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A slave is but half a man.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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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