A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANESA man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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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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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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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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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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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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