There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
ARISTOPHANESA fox is subtlety itself.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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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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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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