Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANESThere is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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An actor should refine public taste.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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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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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 can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
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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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