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.
ARISTOPHANESYe 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!
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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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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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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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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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
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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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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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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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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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Why, I’d like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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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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