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Who knows whether living is dying, and breathing Is eating, and sleeping is a wool blanket?
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'Tis the Whirlwind, that has driven out Zeus and is King now.
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It is so that you may know only those who nourish you
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Somewhere, what with all these clouds, and all this air, There must be a rare name, somewhere... How do you like "Cloud-Cuckoo-Land"?
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Praxagora:
I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; [...] I shall begin by making land, money, everything that is private property, common to all. [...]
Blepyrus:
But who will till the soil?
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The slaves.
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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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On the nightingale:
Lord Zeus, listen to the little bird's voice; he has filled the whole thicket with honeyed song.
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Under every stone lurks a politician.
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There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman—save some other woman.
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
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I am amazed that anyone who has made a fortune should send for his friends.
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This Second Logic then, I mean the Worse one,
They teach to talk unjustly, and—prevail.
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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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O women, if we would compel the men to bow to Peace, [...] We must refrain from every depth of love.... Why do you turn your backs? Where are you going? Why do you bite your lips and shake your heads? Why are your faces blanched? Why do you weep?
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Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.
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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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[Choir of] Men: O botheration take you all! How you cajole and flatter.
A hell it is to live with you; to live without, a hell.
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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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Man is naturally deceitful ever, in every way!
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[We] must look beneath every stone, lest it conceal some orator ready to sting us.
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Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.
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Strepsiades:
But come, by the Earth, is not Zeus, the Olympian, a god?
Socrates:
What Zeus? Do not trifle. There is no Zeus.
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My wind exploded like a thunder-clap... Iaso blushed a rosy red And Panacea turned away her head Holding her nose: my wind's not frankincense.
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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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A savage-creating stubborn-pulling fellow, Uncurbed, unfettered, uncontrolled of speech, Unperiphrastic, bombastiloquent.
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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
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Born:
446 BC
Died:
386 BC
(aged 60)
Bio:
Aristophanes, son of Philippus, of the deme Cydathenaeum, was a comic playwright of ancient Athens. Eleven of his thirty plays survive virtually complete.
Known for:
Lysistrata
The Frogs
The Clouds
The Birds
The Acharnians (426 BC)
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