Aristophanes Quotes
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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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Let each man exercise the art he knows.
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
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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…
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
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High thoughts must have high language.
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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…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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The wise learn many things from their enemies.
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Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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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,…
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Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
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Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.
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Old age is but a second childhood.
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The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start…
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The old are in a second childhood.
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