You can’t have anything else to say: you’ve poured out every drop of what you know.
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Today things are better than yesterday.
More Aristophanes Quotes
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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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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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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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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
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Wealth–the most excellent of all gods.
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
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A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country’s good.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you’ve done.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.
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It should not prejudice my voice that I’m not born a man, if I say something advantageous to the present situation. For I’m taxed too, and as a toll provide men for the nation.
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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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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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