A slave is but half a man.
ARISTOPHANESWomen, 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!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
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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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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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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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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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By words the mind is winged.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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