Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
ARISTOPHANESA man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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An actor should refine public taste.
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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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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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High thoughts must have high language.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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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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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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