Aristophanes
Aristophanes
Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These, together with fragments of some of his other plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and are used to define it...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionPoet
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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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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 trod.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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There's no art where there's no fee.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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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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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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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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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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What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!
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Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
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A slave is but half a man.
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.