There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANESA man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Old age is second childhood.
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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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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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