When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
ARISTOPHANESA fox is subtlety itself.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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An actor should refine public taste.
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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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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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The old are in a second childhood.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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By words the mind is winged.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
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Open your mind before your mouth.
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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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I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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