The wise learn many things from their enemies.
ARISTOPHANESA fox is subtlety itself.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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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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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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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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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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