What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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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An actor should refine public taste.
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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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How can I study from below, that which is above?
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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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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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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.
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The old are in a second childhood.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.
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An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens’ profit.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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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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