Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
ARISTOPHANESIt is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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By words the mind is winged.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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