Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
ARISTOPHANESToday things are better than yesterday.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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A slave is but half a man.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
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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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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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High thoughts must have high language.
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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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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A man’s homeland is wherever he prospers.
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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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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Does it seem that everything is extravagance in the world, or rather madness, when you watch the way things go? A crowd of rogues enjoy blessings they have won by sheer injustice, while more honest folks are miserable and die of hunger.
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