One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
ARISTOPHANESYou cannot make a crab walk straight.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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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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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.
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