A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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When 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.
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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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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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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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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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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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The love of wine is a good man’s failing.
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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.
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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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I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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