Aristophanes Quotes
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Today things are better than yesterday.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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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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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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Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.
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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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A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
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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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Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
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Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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Lysistrata: Oh, Calonicé, my heart is on fire; I blush for our sex. Men will have it we are tricky and sly...Calonicé: And they are quite right, upon my word!Lysistrata: Yet, look you, when the women are summoned to meet for a matter of the last importance, they lie abed instead of coming.Calonicé: Oh, they will come, my dear; but 'tis not easy you know, for a woman to leave the house. One is busy pottering about her husband; another is getting the servant up; a third is putting her child asleep or washing the brat or feeding it.
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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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Evil events from evil causes spring.
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Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.
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Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
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No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
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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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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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[Y]ou 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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You cannot make a crab walk straight.
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[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
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A truce to idle phrases!
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You will never make the crab walk straight.
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Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
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It is right that the good should be happy, that the wicked and the impious on the other hand, should be miserable; that is a truth, I believe, which no one will gainsay.
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Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvelous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
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First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.
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