Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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The old are in a 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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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can’t live with them, or without them!
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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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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Old age is second childhood.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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You possess all the attributes of a demagogue; a screeching, horrible voice, a perverse, crossgrained nature and the language of the market-place. In you all is united which is needful for governing.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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