Aristophanes Quotes

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• Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

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  Stupid, Ignorance, Forever

  "Fictional character: William Hundert". The Emperor's Club, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

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  Love, Respect, Teacher

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• Open your mind before your mouth

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  Mind, Mouths

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• Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever

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  Ignorance, Stupidity, Forever

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• Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

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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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  Clever, Wine, Mind

  "The Knights". Play by Aristophanes, 424 B.C..

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• Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

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  Long, People, Justice

  Aristophanes (2004). “Plutus (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.35, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

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  Voice, Politician, Characteristics

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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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  Men, Rogues, Honest

  Aristophanes (2016). “The Knights”, p.15, Aristophanes

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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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  Men, Debt, Owing

  Aristophanes (1984). “Four Plays”, Plume

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• You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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  Teacher, Crabs, Teach

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• One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.

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  Two, Thieves, Theft

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• Under every stone lurks a politician.

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  Witty, Political, Politics

  "Thesmophoriazusae". Play by Aristophanes, line 529-530, 411 BC.

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• Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.

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  Men, Wings, Giving

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Birds”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

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  Children, Poet, Masters

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• To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

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  Lying, Climbing, Essentials

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• A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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  Inspirational, Friday, Learning

  "Birds". Comedy by Aristophanes, 414 BC.

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• By words the mind is winged.

  Aristophanes

  Mind

  "Birds". Book by Aristophanes, 414 BCE.

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• No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

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  Honesty, Men, Gains

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• You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.

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  Salary, Care, Vote

  Aristophanes (2015). “The wasps - The birds - The frogs - The Thesmophoriazusae - The Ecclesiazusae”, p.276, Aristophanes

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• First listen, my friend, and then you may shriek and bluster.

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  May, Firsts, Bluster

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• The wise learn many things from their enemies.

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  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  Aristophanes, W. J. Hickie (1873). “The Comedies of Aristophanes”, p.322

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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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  Comedy, Sometimes, Please

  Aristophanes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristophanes (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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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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  Impossible, Poet

  Aristophanes (1954). “Lysistrata: an English version by Dudley Fitts”

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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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  Best Friend, Travel, Two

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