I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
ARISTOPHANESA fox is subtlety itself.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.
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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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A slave is but half a man.
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
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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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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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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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