Aristophanes
Aristophanes

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

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Aristophanes

Open your mind before your mouth

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Aristophanes

Jugend altert, Unreife vergeht von allein, Unwissenheit kann man durch Bildung Herr werden und der Trunkenheit durch Ausnüchterung. Doch gegen die Dummheit ist kein Kraut gewachsen.

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Aristophanes

Wer hat die Eule nach Athen gebracht?

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Aristophanes

Was erwirbt dem Dichter unsere Bewunderung? Das Talent und der moralische Zweck, weil er den Menschen bessern will.

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Aristophanes

Regieren ist nichts für einen kultivierten oder ehrenhaften Mann.

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Aristophanes

Epops: A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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Aristophanes

Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.

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Aristophanes

I pained folk but little and caused them much amusement; my conscience rebuked me for nothing.

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Aristophanes

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

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Aristophanes

The wise can often profit by the lessons of a foe,

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Aristophanes

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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Aristophanes

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

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Aristophanes

By words the mind is winged.

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Aristophanes

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

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Aristophanes

Philokleon: Let each man exercise the art he knows.

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Aristophanes

[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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Aristophanes

Sausage-Seller: You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing is good; in the same way it's only in troublous times that you line your pockets.

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Aristophanes

Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language.

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Aristophanes

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.