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There is no animal more invincible than a woman, nor fire either, nor any wildcat so ruthless.
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[Choir of] Men: There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
[Choir of] Women: And yet you are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
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You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding and a vulgar manner.
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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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Whirl is King, having driven out Zeus.
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Who knows whether living is dying, and breathing Is eating, and sleeping is a wool blanket?
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This Second Logic then, I mean the Worse one,
They teach to talk unjustly, and—prevail.
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The love of wine is a good man's failing.
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One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
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Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!
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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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Hierocles: You will never make the crab walk straight.
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
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Come now, ye men, in nature darkling, like to the race of leaves, of little might, figures of clay, shadowy feeble tribes, wingless creatures of a day, miserable mortals, dream-like men.
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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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[Wealth], the most excellent of all the gods.
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A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
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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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Unjust Discourse: To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is a talent worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
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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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There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman—save some other woman.
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Epops:
Come let me see, what shall the name be for our city?
Euelpides:
Hence, from the clouds, and these meteoric regions, some all-swelling name.
Pisthetaerus:
Would you Cloud-cuckoo-land?
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, one who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
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Vortex reigns, having expelled Zeus.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Aristophanes
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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
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