Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous’d, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th’ offended gods.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
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There’s no art where there’s no fee.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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A slave is but half a man.
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Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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By words the mind is winged.
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