There’s no art where there’s no fee.
ARISTOPHANESA fox is subtlety itself.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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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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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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By words the mind is winged.
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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