An actor should refine public taste.
ARISTOPHANESThere is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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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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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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Comedy is allied to justice.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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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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