Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
ARISTOPHANESToday things are better than yesterday.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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Old age is second childhood.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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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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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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Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.
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Do not take a blind guide.
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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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The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
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To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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