Aristophanes Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Full of wiles, full of guile, at all times, in all ways, are the children of Men.

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  Children, Men, Way

  "Birds". Comedy by Aristophanes, 414 BC.

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• Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

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  Eye, Atheism, Mouths

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• Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

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  Wealth, Excellent

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• Comedy is allied to justice.

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  Lying, Justice, Comedy

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• An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

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  Men, Wicked, Honest

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.

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  No Friends, Ending Hunger, World Hunger

  Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1962). “The wasps: Translated by Douglass Parker”

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• Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

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  Monsters, Poverty, Fearful

  Aristophanes (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristophanes (Illustrated)”, p.596, Delphi Classics

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• Thou shouldst not decide until thou hast heard what both have to say.

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  Justice, Ethics, Fairness

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• Old age is second childhood.

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  Childhood, Age, Old Age

  Nubes ( The Clouds), l.1417.

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• Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

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  Prayer, Wine, Pointless

  Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, University of Michigan Press

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• The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.

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  God, Simple, Expression

  Aristophanes, William Arrowsmith (1962). “The clouds: Translated by William Arrowsmith, with sketches by Thomas McClure”

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• When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a woman has only one summer; if she does not make hay while the sun shines, no one will afterwards have anything to say to her, and she spends her days consulting oracles that never send her a husband.

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  Summer, Husband, War

  "Lysistrata". Book by Aristophanes, 410 BCE.

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• The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

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  Truth Is, Foe

  Aristophanes (1906). “Aristophanous Ornithes: The Birds of Aristophanes”

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• Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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  Strength, Art, Life Changing

  Aristophanes (1960). “Aristophanes”

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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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  Voice, Language, Attributes

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• You're mistaken; men of sense often learn much from their enemies. Prudence is the best safeguard. This principle cannot be learnt from a friend: but an enemy extorts it immediately. It is from their foes and not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. And this lesson saves their children, their homes, and their properties.

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  Wall, Children, War

  Aristophanes (1812). “Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds”, p.434

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• High thoughts must have high language.

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  Book, Communication, Beer

  Aristophanes (1962). “Four comedies”

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• There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

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  Men, Gold, Honest

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies - Complete”, p.489, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Friendship, Clever, Wine

  Knights, l. 92., 424 B.C..

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• Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

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  Atheist, Believe, Religion

  John Hookham Frere, Sir Bartle Frere, Aristophanes, Theognis (1872). “The Works of John Hookham Frere in Verse and Prose”, p.70

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• Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

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  Age, Vices, Today

  Aristophanes (1984). “Four Plays”, Plume

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• A man should be able to stand up under any disaster for his country's good.

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  Country, Men, Able

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• Evil events from evil causes spring, And what you suffer flows from what you've done.

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  Spring, Evil, Suffering

  Aristophanes (1812). “Comedies of Aristophanes: Viz: The Clouds, Plutus, The Frogs, The Birds”, p.104

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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 again.

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  Thinking, Break Off, Trying

  Aristophanes (1927). “The Frogs: And Three Other Plays. Translated by Frere, Hickie, Mitchell and Cumberland”

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