Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
ARISTOPHANESYou vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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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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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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A slave is but half a man.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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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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