Do not take a blind guide.
ARISTOPHANESIt is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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By words the mind is winged.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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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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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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 man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
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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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