Open your mind before your mouth.
ARISTOPHANESThere is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Old age is second childhood.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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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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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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A slave is but half a man.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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