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.
ARISTOPHANESWhen men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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A slave is but half a man.
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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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