A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
ARISTOPHANESToday things are better than yesterday.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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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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Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right. I shall not please, but I shall say what is true.
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When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us–not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
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Even if you persuade me, you won’t persuade me.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What’s your argument? Where’s your proof?
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Ye 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!
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A fox is subtlety itself.
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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
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